I find it amusing that Windows is often called the server platform with the most applications, simply because it has traditionally been the platform with the most desktop applications. But if Windows ...

One of the defining characteristics of Unix is modularity – the operating system shell provides a set of small and flexible utilities (such as grep, sed and awk) that can be “glued” together to ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Although the term "open source" didn’t arrive until the late 1990s, the principle has been around since programming really took off in the 50s and 60s. Early developers shared their code and protocol ...

Open source visionary Brian Behlendorf talks about where the movement is heading in the enterprise. How did you first get interested in the open source movement? Was there an “aha!” moment for you? It ...

Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that. Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in ...

Sequoia Capital plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually, as a continuation of a program it debuted last year. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm announced the Sequoia ...

Let your imagination (and wallet) run free.

Anaconda Inc., the developer of an open-source data science platform, today announced a unified artificial intelligence development platform purpose-built for use with open-source software. The ...

Browser Use connects AI agents directly to web browsers, enabling them to autonomously navigate, interact with, and extract information from websites. Author’s note: The generative AI revolution has ...