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 ...

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 ...

Your PC has more options than the usual household names.

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux vs. Windows: How to Pick the Best Server OS for Your Website Every website needs a web server, and every web server runs on an operating system. Linux and Windows Server are your choices, and ...

I started using Linux back in 1997. I had been using Windows 95 and found it to be, well, unreliable. Although I wound up tossing myself into the open-source deep end without a lifeboat, it didn't ...

Unsure of which operating system you want to run on your laptop? Jack Wallen offers some key benefits of the available choices. Laptops are an indispensable piece of hardware that are far more ...

Keep your Linux operating system and the software you run on it fully up to date. You don’t have to worry about remembering to perform patching if you take on one of these automated systems. Automated ...

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux.