More than two dozen of the most prolific Linux kernel programmers dislike a proposed update to the General Public License, which governs many open-source projects. Out of 29 kernel coders, 28 rated ...

An open-source programmer stopped by the CeBit trade show in Hannover, Germany, this week to tell Motorola and 12 other companies he believes they're using Linux in violation of the license that ...

German court supports effort to enforce the GPL, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

I'm interested in learning some basics in programming Linux.<BR><BR>I'm familiar with the Windows API, and I'd like to learn how to do the same things in Linux (i.e. GUI, Threading, Networking, Memory ...

Rust is a fairly young and modern programming language with a lot of features that make it incredibly flexible and very secure. It’s also becoming quite popular, having won first place for the “most ...

I've found myself having do some socket programming in the linux kernel. (yes, yes, I know: have I thought about user space? Yes, that's where I've prototyped my code. This is a research project that ...

Open source projects pride themselves on the wisdom and effort of the crowd, but in the case of webcam drivers, one man has done what many could not. A lone French programmer by the name of Michel ...

Back in the olden days, when the Wire library still sucked, the Arduino was just a microcontroller. Now, we have single board computers and cheap microcontrollers with WiFi built in. As always, ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...