Kano, a small British start up with strong Israeli ties, set out to make the inside workings of a modern computer accessible to children again. The idea behind the project is get kids coding and ...

A government-funded initiative aims to be the one-stop portal for organizing the efforts of critical code reviewers everywhere and boost the frequency with which programmers critique the code of ...

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened.

In a move against claims and worries that proprietary code might make its way into Linux, Linus Torvalds is changing how programmers can contribute code to the Linux kernel.

Understanding Microsoft's Linux code shocker In a move even the software maker notes is unusual, the company is contributing code for three drivers for inclusion in the open-source operating system.

In a letter sent to numerous Linux-using companies, SCO cites specific code in Linux it claims was taken from its Unix intellectual property.

Most recently, Coverity scanned 7.6 million lines of code in Linux 3.8 and found a defect density of just .59.

Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological ...

An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. By Michelle Delio.