Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Users and developers have hailed Linux as the operating system that "just works," celebrating it for decades as a symbol of open source strength, speed, ...

Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...

Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, ...

Beyond that, the Raleigh, N.C.-based Linux vendor also intends to make available open-source implementations of Kerberos security software and open-source messaging server software, Red Hat executives ...

Microsoft’s donation of DocumentDB to the Linux Foundation marks a strategic shift in the NoSQL database landscape, creating the first vendor-neutral document database standard that could reshape how ...

Two new open source silicon groups, one led by Linux Foundation and the other by Intel, launched this week. And both new groups formed just days before the granddaddy of open source hardware groups, ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows. This marks a milestone for a project ...

The Ethereum network, a decentralized layer-1 blockchain that executes smart contracts, is analogous to the open-source ...

Why it matters: Linux is the open-source kernel you can literally find everywhere these days, the heart of both popular consumer operating systems and the most complex hyperscale or cloud setups.