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 ...

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

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Mapping the core projects (SONiC, Cilium, DPDK) and foundations (LFN, CNCF) driving data center, 5G, and Kubernetes ...

The holiday season served me a nice slice of humble pie this year. A friend wanted to send some confidential information and my encryption tools were out of date. But as soon as I updated them, my ...

The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...

Facebook, Google, and Big Switch Networks at this week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit will demonstrate three approaches to network operating systems all built with Open Network Linux (ONL) and ...

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 ...

The University of Osaka, Fujitsu Limited, Systems Engineering Consultants Co., LTD. (SEC), and TIS Inc. (TIS) today announced the launch of an open-source operating system (OS) for quantum computers ...