Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.

I spend a lot of time listening to lots of folks complain that they don’t have a choice, that big, bad Microsoft has come in and made their lives a living hell and that someone should do something ...

So I was rearching information recompiling the linux kernel last night, and I realized that there are lots and lots of linux kernels floating around out there. There are all the vanilla kernels; ...

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 ...

The software update mechanisms used by most BSD and Linux operating systems can be tricked into installing buggy or known-to-be-compromised software on users' systems, creating serious security risks, ...

Exploit broker Zerodium is offering rewards of up to $500,000 for zero-days in UNIX-based operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, but also for Linux distros such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, ...

I was wondering if there's anything under $150 that can run netbsd or linux that could fit in my pocket (I like little keyboards because I have <B>really</B> messy handwriting and no garaphiti (sp?) ...

The NetBSD operating system offers portability, networking and licensing advantages to embedded device OEMs. But NetBSD currently lacks an integrated development environment (IDE) that's as ...

A compression library included by default in Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD distros, contains a vulnerability that can allow hackers to execute code on user machines. The ...

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 ...