A production version of the free GNU operating system is likely to be available by year’s end, said the president of Boston-based Free Software Foundation Inc. (FSF) in an interview. “We actually have ...

The Debian GNU/Linux project has completed 30 years of producing a free, community distribution which is arguably the best and one that has served as the base for several other efforts. The project ...

To many companies, Linux isn't something to be loved or funded. It's just something to throw a dev or two at; to make Linux ...

The Free Software Foundation, sponsors of the GNU free software project, said Wednesday that a key server housing the group’s Linux software was broken into by a malicious hacker. The software, which ...

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The rules governing the use of most free software programs will be revised for the first time in 15 years, in an open process that begins Wednesday. Free software, once regarded as a tiny ...