The GNU Project, which develops many of the components in the Linux operating system, said this week that the system housing its primary download servers has been compromised by an attacker. The ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Richard M Stallman (RMS) recently put his foot in his mouth by defending a sexual abuser and was pressured into resigning from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). So, was that his end as a free ...

Linus Torvalds is apparently back at the helm of the Linux operating system he created in the early 1990s, after taking roughly a month off after complaints about his brusque, often vulgar ...

Yet another shoe has dropped for one of the world's most famous computer scientists, Richard Stallman — the architect of the free and open source software movement (FOSS), who found himself pushed out ...

A Unix-like operating system based on the GNU Mach microkernel from Carnegie Mellon (Hurd and Mach make up the GNU Hurd operating system from the GNU Project). Hurd is known as a "multiserver" ...

The operating system created in 1992 by combining the GNU system, the Linux kernel and other software. Although "Linux" is the name most widely heard, many prefer to use "GNU/Linux" to give credit to ...

Everyone's favorite Linux component has hit a milestone, while a fresh contender comes of age – with a touch of Lisp.… In ...

__ 1991: __Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old university student from Finland, writes a post to a user group asking for feedback on a little project he's working on. He's built a simple kernel for a ...