The open source community encourages a lot of people to contribute, and the variety of Linux distributions means you’re likely to find many options that fit your needs. The people who love Linux love ...

Microsoft built a fortress around its user base. From schools to enterprises, Windows is so deeply woven into daily life that ...

Well I've been messing around with trying to get a PCMCIA card thats unsupported by the Redhat 7.2 Install to work. I've posted numerous messages, and even chatted with people online. Linux people ...

Let's face it, nobody buys a $5,400 gaming laptop to run Linux on it. Except, apparently, me — because the moment the 2026 ...

Linux, the computer operating system developed in the 1990s by a college student in Finland, is unlikely to dethrone Microsoft's Windows as the ubiquitous operating system on desktop PCs anytime soon.

You can't blame the first prophecy of the "Year of the Linux desktop" on me. No, I've certainly been a true believer, but the credit -- or blame, if you must -- goes to Dirk Hohndel, Linux kernel ...

This is a topic I have been discussing with many, but not yet on Ars Forum. I hear a lot of rhetoric by some of my (well meaning) paranoid friends who tell me that Linux will eventually be made ...

OK, actually, they're fit to be tied. That's because millions of users have been using CentOS as a stable point distribution for their servers, virtual machines, and appliances. These aren't just ...

In a weirdly surprising move, Facebook is restricting posts related to Linux content on its platform and flagging them against its Community Guidelines, including popular site DistroWatch. In an odd ...

I am not a programmer. Sometimes I’ve wanted to get a t-shirt made saying this, because–as an author of Linux books–it’s always assumed I am. But I’m an impostor. The last program I wrote ran on a ZX ...