There’s a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) devices can do almost anything a home server can, just on smaller, more power-efficient hardware. Generally, they come with pre-built operating systems, but some models ...

Hypervisors like VirtualBox or VMware can run just about any OS as long as you've got enough hardware power. However, just ...

The collection of user data has become a contentious issue for people worldwide. Fortunately, Canonical has shown how it can be done right.

As the Japanese government prepares to introduce more electronic government projects next year, it has begun studying open-source operating systems in a move that could lead to the replacement of some ...

Open source technologies are enterprise-class and increasingly can be found in the data center, as vendors begin addressing the challenge of offering scalable, robust, reliable products based on ...

10G Ethernet vendor Force10 Networks is changing the operating system on its data center switches to NetBSD, an open source platform, with the aim of improving switch performance for customers. The ...

What if you could hand off every tedious computer task, no matter how complex, to an intelligent system that handles it with precision and speed? Enter TARS Agent, a new open source AI operating ...

Carmakers and suppliers continue to deal with challenges involving the time, resources, and costs required to build complex, next-generation software-defined vehicles (SDVs). One major obstacle to ...

Most people today take the internet for granted. Want to find an obscure report published years ago, or the best place to stay in Timbuktu? No problem. We forget that it wasn’t always that simple. In ...

A pioneering startup called Merit Systems Inc. is getting a lot of attention today after raising $10 million to create a new economic model for software developers that it calls “open-source ...