This month’s Linux distro review isn’t of a Linux distribution at all—instead, we’re taking a look at FreeBSD, the original gangster of free Unix-like operating systems. Before we get started, I’d ...

SALT LAKE CITY - When Utah technology executive Darl McBride sniffs Linux, the free computer operating system, he picks up a scent of Unix, a long-established business system he maintains made Linux ...

Computer maker Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday plans for inexpensive desktop computers based on the free Linux operating system in a bid to undermine archrival Microsoft. Marking a second plunge ...

Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and 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 ...

Linux doesn’t hide the system behind guardrails. Here’s why its freedom, flexibility, and control still outclass the ...

Why it matters: Debian is not the oldest Linux operating system out there, being just a month "younger" than Slackware. But the project started by Ian Murdock certainly is the most successful, as it ...