Jeff Bates, vice president of editorial operations at The Open Source Technology Group, home to Slashdot.org and SourceForge, the open source software development community, says he has seen a ...

Discover the best open source project management software in 2026 to streamline your workflow. Compare features & explore ...

When thinking about open source, most people immediately think Linux, Apache, Mozilla to name a few of the many projects currently being developed. Of course, there are thousands of open source ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a set of software tools that basically lets you install and run native Linux applications on a Windows PC without rebooting ...

Microsoft yesterday re-released a Windows 7 installation tool that it admitted included open-source code, and has posted the utility’s source code to its own open-source site. The move came three ...

ReactOS open source Windows clone ran Half-Life in-game for the first time in 30 years of development. A March 2026 GPU driver milestone implementing WDDM and KMDF unlocked the GoldSrc OpenGL pipeline ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

Often the hardest part of contributing to an open source project is learning where to start. Microsoft has a cure for that. Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in ...

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Microsoft is bringing secure, OS-level AI agent execution to Windows through Execution Containers, OpenClaw support, and a new partnership with Nvidia’s OpenShell Runtime ...