When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting along fabulously while sharing ideas and ideals like most people share memes on ...

Ok. Just wondering what others are doing. In our organization we have a very mature monthly patching process for our Windows desktops and servers. The Linux/Unix side is frankly a mess. Since its ...

What a difference 233 lines of code can make. That’s the size of a small new patch to the Linux kernel’s scheduler that has been found to reduce the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times.

Microsoft’s recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of ...

Patching a Linux kernel without any downtime is likely to become a common practice over the next few years; two patches released earlier this year are likely to make what is a task requiring downtime ...

Google and Red Hat researchers released a patch for a critical remote code execution flaw in glibc 2.9 and later Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the GNU C library, glibc, that ...

A dangerous vulnerability in a pervasive tool for running Linux systems in a Windows environment leaves the door open for an attacker to access these systems without requiring any authentication. The ...

This is actually a feature that was available in Linux in 2009 thanks to a program called Ksplice. This program compares the original and patched kernels and then uses a customized kernel module to ...

Time is running out for anyone planning to ready their systems for the biggest time-related change since Y2K — the 2007 Daylight Savings Time change. As Americans turn their clocks ahead one hour this ...