It was on a very silly project, but with even Linux's creator now using AI, the debate over code quality, maintainability, and developer skills is likely to intensify.

For three decades, Linux has been written in the programming language C. But change could be coming. There's growing momentum behind an effort to make programming language Rust a second language to C ...

The project, called AudioNoise, appeared on Torvalds' GitHub earlier this month. Written primarily in C, the program explores digital audio effects and signal processing. It grew ...

Why Linus Torvald's using AI code for fun does not mean Linux is changing course anytime soon globally ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kite, the AI Autocomplete for Python that eliminates repetitive coding tasks, today announced that it has added Linux support for Ubuntu 16.04+, Debian, Fedora, ...

signals. Qt is in its third avatar, meaning v3.0, and is now a mature library. It has even branched off as Qtopia, for development of GUI in embedded systems. The Qt development kit is available ...

The Linux kernel is not a place to work if you’re not ready for some, shall we say, spirited argument. Still, one key developer in the project to expand Rust’s place inside the largely C-based kernel ...

Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software ...

TLDR: The Mastering Linux Development Bundle explores how to understand and use Linux as an operating system for running all kinds of business and cloud-based information networks. Windows and Mac.

I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. Code running as written is not the same as ...

An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...