On the other side of the utility spectrum are operating systems designed by smaller developer teams. Haiku OS and SerenityOS ...

If you need to test multiple operating systems, Ventoy makes things incredibly easy. If you haven't tried it yet, you really ...

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

Sparky Linux 7.2 is available to download now for free. It's incredibly fast, simple to use, and based on one of the most reliable operating systems on the market (Debian). You might find it a bit ...

In the desktop space, Linux and other operating systems do a lot of probing of their environment. They have to configure the buses, probe for attached hardware, see if new hardware is attached, and do ...

SkyQuest projects that the Linux operating system market will attain a value of USD 38.6 billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 22.9% over the forecast period (2023-2030). Linux is widely recognized as a ...

On August 16, the Debian blog announced that the project is now officially 30 years old. The Linux distro was established by Ian A. Murdock in 1993, ...

News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.