Vancouver, British Columbia—During his question and answer session at the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, revealed that while mainstream Linux and its popular smartphone ...

When Acer was ready to announce a new smartphone running Alibaba's Aliyun operating system, Google responded with force. If it were to be released, Google would end its partnership with Acer, which ...

fork 和 exec 的使用体现了 UNIX 的精髓，它提供了一种非常简单的方式来启动新的任务。注意这里“任务”一词的使用，我刻意避免使用“进程”或“程序”这两个术语： 进程是“执行引擎”，是操作系统中能够运行程序的实体； 程序是用于执行相同任务的特定 ...

When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups that were ...

Android 16’s Linux Terminal can now run graphical Linux apps such as Doom. This is thanks to improvements like hardware acceleration support and a display server. These upgrades aren’t live yet in the ...

Google is calling on the open-source community to help with its Chrome OS Linux fork, but such efforts are unlikely to trouble Microsoft. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written ...

Oracle has this month introduced the Oracle-flavoured Linux 7 open source operating system. Freely distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), Oracle Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise ...