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

The new Linux Terminal app plays a big role in Google's future plans to turn Android into a desktop platform. Here's how.

Linux is making real gains on the desktop. New data shows its market share passing 5% in the U.S., signaling a long-awaited ...

Linux hits 5% of desktop OSes in the US, Apple's share grows — and Windows slowly falls, according to StatCounter.

Creating a bootable USB drive let's you get hands-on experience with Linux without necessarily overwriting your system.

Is there an operating system beyond Windows, Linux, or macOS? Actually, there are many, and we've dug to find some of them for you.

Linus Torvalds, creator of free operating system Linux, announces that software developers making contributions to operating system will have to sign their work and vouch for its origin; pledge is ...

Two Operating Systems, One PC Is it possible to install Ubuntu Linux on my Windows XP computer so I can have both systems on one machine — without having to reinstall Windows?

The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.” Simon Fraser University computer scientist Toby Donaldson says Ubuntu is popular because, unlike some other versions ...

"The potential of Linux computer operating system is in the high-end, and we have not yet fully harnessed that," Ari Jaaksi, head of Maemo at Nokia, told Reuters.