Ubuntu, Red Hat, and a number of other leading open source solutions providers have patched a critical vulnerability in the GNU C Library that has been around for years. On Tuesday, Ubuntu published a ...

After putting this question to the experts, the conclusion is that no matter what you call it, it's still Linux at its core. Should the Linux operating system be called "Linux" or "GNU/Linux"? These ...

The GNU Compiler Collection will be refreshed with updated C++ standards compliance and improvements in parallelism and diagnostics. Described as a “major” release, GCC 6.1 leverages the C++ 14 ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...

The Free Software Foundation, sponsors of the GNU free software project, said Wednesday that a key server housing the group’s Linux software was broken into by a malicious hacker. The software, which ...