The operating system created in 1992 by combining the GNU system, the Linux kernel and other software. Although "Linux" is the name most widely heard, many prefer to use "GNU/Linux" to give credit ...

If you have ever studied the early history of the GNU/Linux operating system in its many forms, you’ll have read that [Linus Torvalds] developed his first kernel for his Intel 386-based computer.

They call our special operating system GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux, and to them there’s no such term as open-source software. For the FSF, the terms “free software” and “open source” have ...

The Linux kernel is the core used by GNU/Linux operating system distributions from Red Hat, Novell, and others. The new release was made final and was publicized in a newslist post from Linux ...

Free software, once regarded as a tiny counterculture in computing, has become a mainstream technology in recent years, led by the rising popularity of programs like the GNU Linux operating system.

One of the things that keeps GNU/Linux-based distributions interesting is the fact that you can often customize the look and feel of the operating system by changing desktop environments or themes.

GNU/Linux is an open source operating system for computers, comparable to Windows or OS X. It has been developed by a wide community of hobbyists and programmers, largely in their spare time and ...

Eazel's Nautilus 1.0 file manager and system management interface promises to make that tech-heavy GNU/Linux operating system, and its complementary GNOME desktop program, accessible to the ...

An article last Sunday about the Linux operating system Ubuntu, using information from its maker, Canonical, referred erroneously to Ubuntu’s market prevalence.