Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation - ...

In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems acquires Berkeley Software Design's version of Unix. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Kali Linux, a popular Linux distribution for cybersecurity research and penetration testing, just revealed the Kali Linux ...

ZDNET key takeaways There are tons of brilliant open-source apps.You'll find open-source titles for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.Some of these apps are so good, they should have a price tag. Since I ...

Yocto Project: An open-source toolkit at the Linux Foundation that enables developers to build custom Linux for embedded ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

Ransom Love is chief executive of Caldera Systems, which was formed from the merger earlier this year of Caldera with the operating system and services arms of SCO. ZDNet: What is your biggest concern ...

The subject of this week’s Linux Picks and Pans is a representative of a less well-known computing platform that coexists with Linux as an open source operating system. If you thought that the Linux ...

According to Satya Nadella, Microsoft loves Linux. He said as much, complete with pictures — and his team backs him up. In itself, it’s a remarkable statement. Nadella’s predecessor, Steve Ballmer, ...

After years of hinting, Nvidia announced yesterday that it would be open-sourcing part of its Linux GPU driver, as both Intel and AMD have done for years now. Previously, Linux users who wanted to ...