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

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

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

If you hear the term "open-source," you might think of Linux. However, Linux distros aren't the only open-source operating systems. There are plenty in use today besides Linux. Some date back to even ...

Your PC has more options than the usual household names.

ReactOS is a free and open source operating system designed to be compatible with Windows software and drivers. While it’s been under active development since 1999, the operating system is still ...

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 ...

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 ...

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