The open-source favorite has scored record adoption among US desktop users, following a just over 5% dip in Windows ...

Is Linux really the best operating system? Plus: No GOG.com support for Linux gamers, and a screenshot tour of Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1.

Red Hat, world's biggest distributor of free Linux computer-operating system, agrees to buy Netscape security software from America Online unit of Time Warner for $20.5 million (S) ...

The vast majority of users consider the computer Operating System (OS) to be a commodity i.e. just a piece of infrastructure that has to be there, but not an entity that might influence the way we ...

Ubuntu is also the name of -- and philosophy behind -- the most popular desktop variant of the Linux operating system. Linux was originally developed by a Finnish programmer named Linus Torvalds and ...

Even the Raspberry Pi computer board has its operating system based on the Linux kernel. If you’re not familiar with Raspberry Pi, it’s a single, credit card-sized board packing everything you ...

The popular free Linux computer operating system being co-opted by corporate technology titans was born of a Finnish university student and a group devoted to no-cost software.

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

Bharat Operating System Solutions is an Indian Linux distribution derived from Debian. IT is developed by CDAC and is customized to suit Indian's digital environment.

News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index Linux (Computer Operating System) ...