Most consumers can, with a little effort, name two desktop and laptop operating systems: Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS. Few have ever considered any of the open-source alternatives found under ...

Before Linux, GNU was working on its own Mach-based Unix compatible OS. Now, in the footsteps of Debian 13, there is a new release.… Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the latest release of the other GNU ...

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux ...

Lately Microsoft has been pushing out new Linux distributions for the Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) at a rapid pace. First, Kali Linux was released earlier this week and now Microsoft adds Debian ...

To this day, I can still remember the first time I logged into Linux and how it looked. It was Caldera Open Linux 1.0 with the Fvwm95 desktop. It was ugly (even at the time) and completely different ...

If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems, anyway ...

In an interview with Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, VentureBeat got a bird’s-eye view of the future of the open-source operating system for 2014. We also addressed the controversial ...