Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital ...

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.

Laws requiring age verification in operating systems will likely exclude open-source, at least in California and Colorado.

It’s time to party. Linux is 30 years old. What started as a student project by a young Linus Torvalds studying computer science at the University of Helsinki, has become an open source operating ...

Your PC has more options than the usual household names.

Open-source or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) operating systems? In an era of safety-critical embedded systems, the debate among developers is shifting. Embedded systems are the invisible backbone of ...