Microsoft announced that it has become the platinum member of the Linux Foundation — it will donate $500,000 annually toward advancement and development of open source projects. The announcement, made ...

Mandrake, a French company that sells Linux, is encouraging users to join for-fee clubs to provide enough money to keep the company in business. The company hopes to break even by the end of the year, ...

Almost all of Linux's development work is conducted in the open. Almost. One of the few exceptions is when companies or hackers reveal unpatched security holes to Linux developers. In those cases, ...

Leaders of several major open-source projects have joined George Washington University's Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute to push for greater government use of the Linux operating system.