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The PHP project has been forced to move its operations from its own git server to the Microsoft-owned software code repository GitHub after two malicious commits were discovered in the php-srx repository in the name of founder Rasmus Lerdorf and developer Nikita Popov.

The release of version 2.0.0 by the OpenZFS project has some crowing as though some revolutionary new software, which will bring benefits to world+dog, has landed.

The open source Samba project has lost one of its senior contributors with the death of Lars Muller on 1 October.

A project that is managed by the Linux Foundation has indicated by its actions that its claims to be an open source grouping exist only in name.

The Samba project, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, has released a client for ChromeOS.

Eleven years after he rocked the Linux community by withdrawing the non-commercial version of BitKeeper, his source code management system, Larry McVoy has finally been forced to open source the application.

A Tasmanian lawyer has failed in his bid to get access to the source code of the poll counting application Easycount used for the WA Senate election in September 2013.

For its developers, Samba 4 is the holy grail. When they make that release, they would be able to offer businesses, 80 per cent of whom use Active Directory for authentication, the freedom to choose a non-Windows server environment and yet enjoy all the benefits of Active Directory.