One of the defining characteristics of Unix is modularity – the operating system shell provides a set of small and flexible utilities (such as grep, sed and awk) that can be “glued” together to ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Open source visionary Brian Behlendorf talks about where the movement is heading in the enterprise. How did you first get interested in the open source movement? Was there an “aha!” moment for you? It ...

Although the term "open source" didn’t arrive until the late 1990s, the principle has been around since programming really took off in the 50s and 60s. Early developers shared their code and protocol ...

Anaconda Inc., the developer of an open-source data science platform, today announced a unified artificial intelligence development platform purpose-built for use with open-source software. The ...

Sequoia Capital plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually, as a continuation of a program it debuted last year. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm announced the Sequoia ...

For most of us, Visual Studio Code is a text editor, a place to write code, preview Markdown, or maybe debug a script or two. But that perception barely scratches the surface. Over the last few years, ...

Browser Use connects AI agents directly to web browsers, enabling them to autonomously navigate, interact with, and extract information from websites. Author’s note: The generative AI revolution has ...

Skyvern is fundamentally changing the way we approach web-based task automation through its innovative open-source AI framework. By offering a compelling alternative to proprietary systems like ...

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 ...