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Torvalds himself is a maintainer of the kernel as a whole, and a question that is repeatedly asked is 'what if Linus gets hit by a bus?"

It's a question that moved a tad closer to reality at the Linuxcon EU event in Dublin. Hohndel said that he had to warn Torvalds while on route to his keynote, when crossing the street to avoid being hit by a bus.

The Xen Project Advisory Board's chairman discusses how the open-source virtualization technology behind most public clouds is able to patch security issues before they become real problems.

Zend Technologies - a company that bills itself as 'the' PHP Company has been acquired by Rogue Wave Software for an undisclosed amount.

Real-Time Linux is a topic that has been discussed and developed in the Linux community for a long time. The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project, though it's important to first understand and realize that efforts to develop Real-Time Linux have been ongoing for over a decade.

The researcher who first disclosed the Android Stagefright security vulnerability at Black Hat 2015 is now revealing even more flaws that have yet to be patched.

GitHub embraces the FIDO standard and aims to get Yubico U2F keys into as many developer hands as it can.

Pentaho is set to debut its new Pentaho 6 Enterprise 6 and community edition, providing users with new business intelligence capabilities. Pentaho formally announced the Penthao 6 release on September 30, though general availability is not scheduled until October 14.

The GNOME 3.18 Linux desktop, released Sept. 23, offers a milestone feature update. Code-named Gothenburg, the new open-source desktop environment benefits from 25,112 changes from 772 contributors.

While the open source Drupal content management system (CMS) is freely available, there is money to be made in support and services. This is where Acquia, the lead commercial vendor behind Drupal, comes into play.

Acquia today announced a new $55 million Series G equity financing round, with investors Centerview Capital Technology, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Split Rock Partners.

As its market share dwindles toward irrelevance, Mozilla updates its flagship Firefox browser.

New features in Tesora Enterprise 1.5 include several from the upcoming OpenStack Liberty release, providing improved MongoDB and Reddis database support.

Red Hat continues to accelerate its growth thanks to an evolving mix of platform and infrastructure technology revolving around Linux and the cloud. Red Hat announced its second quarter fiscal 2016 financial results on September 21, once again exceeding expectations.

The online development project repository for Docker containers apps grows dramatically in the 15 months since Docker Inc. introduced the technology.

Nginx Inc today released its second milestone update of its Nginx Plux web server so far in 2015. The Nginx Plus R7 update follows the the R6 update which debuted in April.

VIDEO: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, discusses the need for private cloud and why virtualization alone is not enough.

The Docker 1.8.2 release is now out provide the second incremental update to Docker 1.8.x since the initial 1.8.0 release on August 12. As was the case with 1.8.1 this is a bug and stability update

The Internet Bug Bounty covers approximately a dozen open source projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet, including PHP, perl, Python, Ruby, OpenSSH and others.

Sometimes, open-source code is forked and it never returns. Case in point is LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org as well Jenkins and Hudson. In those cased the projects were forked because developers didn't like the way thing were going and the forks have (arguably) gone on to become vastly more popular and widely deployed then the original project.

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, discusses his organization's expanding efforts to help enable multiple open source foundations.

Ubuntu developers are closing in on the next major release with the Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf set for October 22. Ubuntu 15.10 is in many respects an incremental release ahead of the 16.04 Long Term Support release in 2016. Among the key innovations in 15.10 is wider use of the Snappy technology for packaging, though it won't replace the core .deb packaging system anytime soon, if ever.