Various Linux user groups took booths at the Linux Expo this week, staking out their territory in the manner of Monty Python's Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea. Only in the Linux ...

Linux customers are unlikely to be deterred by legal threats from the SCO Group, even while the outcome of SCO's legal battle with Novell remains undecided, according to a leading open-source group.

The two biggest supporters of Linux software are coming together. A San Francisco non-profit, the Free Standards Group, will merge with Open Source Development Labs of Beaverton, Ore., to form The ...

NEW YORK – In a move to make the freely distributed Linux operating system a stronger alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced Friday they have ...

Extending its membership base beyond the computing industry, the Open Source Development Lab is inducting Unilever, whose sales count products such as soap and tea. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

A German software group on Wednesday threatened to take U.S. software company SCO Group to court if it did not withdraw from a worldwide attack on Linux, the free computer operating system. Linuxtag, ...

LiPS Forum's activities will be folded into the LiMo Foundation starting in July, reducing fragmentation in the mobile Linux market After steadily losing membership this year, one of the earliest ...

A group of companies launched the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum on Monday. It’s the newest effort to create standards aimed at fostering the use of Linux on mobile devices. The goal of the LiPS ...

Red Hat, Canonical and the Linux Foundation have laid out a set of recommendations for hardware vendors in hopes of preserving the ability to install Linux on Windows 8 machines. Windows 8 machines ...

The two main evangelizers of the Linux operating system, Open Source Development Lab Inc. (OSDL) and Free Standards Group Inc. (FSG), are merging to form the Linux Foundation. The two industry ...