Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what Linux really thinks about open source, Windows, Macs ...

Spoiler alert: Tux has wings.

Let me paint a picture for you. I was running a virtual instance of another Linux operating system this morning with VirtualBox. Everything was going fine (as it usually does) until it wasn't. The ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

Jack Wallen explains how Linux has changed computing for the better and ponders what might be next for the open source OS created by Linus Torvalds. Today marks the official 30th birthday of the Linux ...

Tired of the big three OS families? Here are some slick operating systems to satisfy your tinkering spirit ...

Linux is now the fourth most popular desktop operating system in America, according to the latest report from StatCounter. This comes at a time of record adoption for the niche OS, which has now ...

The open-source Linux operating system has emerged to be the foundation for cloud and networking across industries. Enterprise Linux distributions form the core of modern networking setups. They ...

The company, which has been getting hit hard on the low end by Linux-based systems, has decided to embrace Linux more fully by shipping its own Linux distribution, a series of single and ...