Over the years I have not really paid much attention to verifying downloads for the GNU/Linux installation discs when I download them. I used to just download the ISO files, burn them, and sometimes I ...

Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may ...

Does Steam selling games with DRM in the free and open source environment of GNU/Linux defeat the entire point? That's what Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU operating system and Free Software ...

ZDNET key takeaways If you thought you knew every Linux distro, think again.These obscure distros are fascinating and impressive.You can download and install each of these for free. It never ceases to ...

Richard Stallman, founder of the Boston-based Free Software Foundation, has created a new version of his GNU General Public License, or GPL, under which many free software programs are distributed.

For the better part of a decade, users of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and IRIX have used Darren Reed's ipfilter software to firewall networks and protect individual systems from network-based ...