Open Source
IBM agrees $34bn deal to buy Red Hat
IBM aims to dominate cloud infrastructure with Red Hat purchase - but is it wildly overpaying?
Acorn Computer's RISC OS operating system finally goes fully open source
RISC OS 5 to form the basis of RISC OS Open after Castle Technology sells to RISC OS Developments
Apple deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL from MacOS 10.14 Mojave
Apple bid to force developers to use Metal instead risks games exodus from Mac platform
Microsoft buys GitHub in $7.5bn all-stock deal
Weekend rumours confirmed - price tag even more than the wildest rumours suggested
Linux 4.15 kernel finally released a week late, due to the Spectre and Meltdown CPU security bugs
"Not a pleasant release cycle," admits Linus Torvalds
Linux Windows emulator Wine now available on Android
Wine 3.0 provides rudimentary support for Windows apps on Android, but it's very much a work-in-progress
Desktop Linux surge sees open source operating system overtake MacOS, according to Netmarketshare figures
Netmarketshare figures questioned as Linux surges past MacOS
Reddit to stop publishing its main source code after nine years in the public domain
Reddit claims move is part of a growing up process for the popular website
From kaftans to Kubernetes - how open source took over the world
Open source software has come a long way in 25 years
The NSA is now on GitHub
Part of a wider move towards a more open environment - however much of an oxymoron that might be
Red Hat to acquire Codenvy
Open source solutions provider makes acquisition in bid to shore up cloud development tools business
European Investment Bank invests €25m in MariaDB
EIB more used to funding development in the Caucasus than software companies in Finland
Microsoft to close CodePlex. Users advised to migrate to Github
Nine months to shift projects from CodePlex to Github
Open source developers using GitHub targeted by Dimnie Trojan malware
Trojan has ability to steal passwords, download sensitive files, take screenshots and even self-destruct
Munich's desktop Linux was 'working fine' before politicians decreed return to Windows
Munich's Linux experiment shot-down by politicians, claims project head Karl-Heinz Schneider
Gumtree turns to internal cloud for faster, more efficient development
Move comes amid culture change to merge all key business teams
Linus Torvalds ignored SHA1 security warnings in 2005
Disputed findings presented by colleague
Gitlab loses 300GB of data after major sysadmin error
Company rapidly trying to restore data
ThoughtWorks' bi-annual Technology Radar highlights emerging trends in augmented reality and changing structure of software teams
Leading technologists issue trends report alongside visualization tool for companies to develop their own tech strategies
Linux users urged to protect against 'Dirty COW' security flaw
All Linux users should take this seriously, says security expert
Mirantis OpenStack 9.0 focuses on operational challenges for IT teams
Latest release of 'pure play' OpenStack build aims at easing deployment and maintenance of private clouds
Linus Torvalds goes on epic rant over Linux devs' comment syntax
'Brain-damaged stupid,' says Linux creator
Ubuntu Linux to be bundled as preferred OS with Pivotal Cloud Foundry app platform
Pivotal settles on Ubuntu as platform of choice for Cloud Foundry
Suse brings Linux for high-performance computing to Microsoft's Azure cloud
Suse has the only supported enterprise Linux for HPC available on Microsoft Azure