To be honest, aside from the Chrome OS platform, GNU/Linux systems are typically not best for people who rely on big-name software or don't like dabbling with a customizable, hands-on interface.

To be honest, aside from the Chrome OS platform, GNU/Linux systems are typically not best for people who rely on big-name software or don't like dabbling with a customizable, hands-on interface.

Free Software Foundation and GNU operating system founder Richard Stallman believes it's "unethical" for Steam to sell DRM-protected games on an open-source platform like Linux.

Needless to say, an OS can't work without a kernel, and Linux has been the dominant kernel for the GNU operating system. There are other options ( like GNU/Hurd ), but for most GNU installations ...

Like most GNU/Linux distributions, you can download elementary OS for free (or make a small donation) and install it on pretty much any computer released in the past decade.

The Linux-Libre 3.2 kernel provides the core of the OS, which also features LibreOffice 3.5 and version 19 of Abrowser, a Firefox derivative that does not recommend non-free software but offers ...

Business leaders like Ransom Love, chief executive of Caldera, might say that revenues are the way forward for GNU/Linux, but Richard Stallman is having none of it. Linux is moving slowly but ...

It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in the version after next of Ubuntu, 25.10 – which also means changing the ...

Puzzle GNU/Linux is a strange OS distribution that shows the value of open source ingenuity. It is built around a hybrid desktop that is highly customizable. You might get the impression when you ...

FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system derived from the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). ... For those interested in experimenting with different operating system architectures, Debian ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old.What was ...