If you’ve been meaning to try out Linux but felt too overwhelmed, we’ve got all the info you need to get started. Here are our five lessons on getting a working Linux partition up and running. Lesson ...

Welcome back as we wrap up the first week of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux. I guess it says something about the complexity of switching operating systems as opposed to switching office productivity suites ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft has spent a lot of time attacking Linux recently, but the company has learned and benefited from the rival operating system. Linux's success in low-end servers led the company ...

Perhaps you aren’t a pet person. Some of my best friends aren’t, either. Or maybe you are Apple-obsessed or a Windows enthusiast. I love my Mac and know plenty of people who work with Windows. In any ...

Microsoft learns from the strengths of the operating system that it loves to hate, Red Hat wants to take the OS to schools, and Turbolinux looks beyond its namesake. Linus Torvalds, meanwhile, says ...

Recently, I have been spending quite a bit of time working with the Windows Subsystem for Linux in relation to a project that I have been working on. Although I have occasionally dabbled in Linux, it ...

[In June 2015, I gave a commencement address to the graduating class of High Mowing School in New Hampshire. I wrote many drafts for the talk, all toward extemporizing the final thing. My experience ...

On Monday, August 26th, Caldera, now SCO Group, rolled out its new (actually, old) name at the company's GEOForum show in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Jeff Gerhardt gave us two reports from the show itself.