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Mirantis cofounder Boris Renski has bad news for infrastructure software companies: They need to "change their business model or perish."

Standout hardware, but how good is it in real life for a Linux user? We tested 8 different Linux distributions.

Mozilla has set up a $500,000 initial fund that will be used for paying professional security firms to audit project code.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday stepped up its efforts to develop a brand-new computer architecture by inviting open-source developers to collaborate on the futuristic device it calls "The Machine."

Open source companies have to strike a very fine balance between business needs and community needs. And that balance seems to have been tipped at ownCloud.

Frank Karlitschek is forking ownCloud to create a new open source project called Nextcloud and is joining with Spreedbox founder Niels Mache to create a new company with the same name.

Red Hat has announced the release of Ansible 2.1. One of the biggest features of the new release of the open source and agentless automation framework for DevOps is support for Microsoft Windows and Azure cloud.

“Hey, either Macs don't count much on the desktop, or we may have to finally lay the 'year of the Linux desktop' joke to rest,” says Torvalds.

"The blockchains, marked contracts, distributed ledgers and databases in general are really about building the next generation stack for the Internet," says Behlendorf. It's "hard to imagine an industry that isn't going to be affected."

If you are looking for an iPad or Android tablet alternative, this Ubuntu tablet is not for you. There aren’t many apps that will help you do anything more than basic Web browsing, emailing, messaging and YouTube viewing.

"Your machine is insecure unless you're running my kernel," says Greg Kroah-Hartman.

CoreOS's Matthew Garrett talks about the security risks in containers and how he and others are working to mitigate such risks.

A lawyer, an accountant, a retired CFO, and a retired woman from Berkeley who said she struggles with technology are among the eight women and two men who were selected Monday to decide Oracle’s huge copyright infringement case against Google.

CoreOS kicked off its first international CoreOS Fest today in Berlin, Germany with many significant announcements. Here are 6 of the things you need to know from day 1 of the event.

Oracle says Android usurped the mobile OS market from Sun. Google says Sun just never built a decent product

Qualcomm has patched a vulnerability in netd (network_manager), which for the last five years has left devices vulnerable to having their text message or contact databases compromised. The company sent OEMs a fix for this problem back in March, but the gap in Android versions on the market means that most users are going to be out of luck.

It isn't Ransomware in the traditional sense, as there's no encryption, but Android devices are being targeted by malware that hijacks mobile advertisements to scam gift cards, researchers at Blue Coat Labs discovered.

Lately Microsoft has received a lot of attention for its embracing of Linux and open source, but it may surprise you to know that Microsoft has been doing open source since 2004, the same year Facebook and Ubuntu were launched.

"It's been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I'll wear them down.”

Attackers can easily bypass the patch to exploit a vulnerability that allows them to escape from the Java security sandbox.