Software Engineer Stops Attempt to Add Backdoor to Linux Operating Systems Microsoft software engineer Andres Freund discovers a backdoor lurking in the XZ Utils data-compression tools, which are open ...

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

Modern Linux distributions are powerful operating systems that can fully replace Windows or macOS for many users. But there are still some Windows-only applications that may not be available for Linux ...

Every so often, I'm surprised by a Linux distribution. After working with and reviewing these things for the past few decades, you'd think there aren't any surprises left. That's why it's always a ...

The history of Linux is among the most unusual stories of recent technological progress. In 1991, Finnish undergraduate Linus ...