As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control ...

Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, is launching Percona Packages, a suite of structured consulting and support offerings for enterprise IT and ...

The site was first launched as a successor to RaidForums, which was seized by law enforcement in 2022. Run by Conor Brian ...

Docker is an open-source platform that packages applications into containers. Think of containers as lightweight, portable boxes. Each box holds everything your app needs to run: code, libraries, and ...

If Windows is your preferred operating system, consider these open-source apps. There are numerous open-source apps available for almost any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows.

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

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The latest incarnation of the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has suffered a data breach, with its user database table ...

This new Linux distro is a multimedia powerhouse right out of the box ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to investigate and recommend best practices for NASA as it considers whether to establish an open code ...

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Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...