There’s a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) devices can do almost anything a home server can, just on smaller, more power-efficient hardware. Generally, they come with pre-built operating systems, but some models ...

Open-source routers come with many benefits. These are the ones I find the most compelling.

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...

The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project, an open source network operating system (NOS) under the Linux Foundation, is accelerating its growth today with new members and ...

It’s a topic of fierce debate among high-tech cognoscenti: What’s more secure – “open source” code such as Linux and Apache, or proprietary “closed source” operating systems and applications, ...

As the Japanese government prepares to introduce more electronic government projects next year, it has begun studying open-source operating systems in a move that could lead to the replacement of some ...