I've been regularly using Linux in various forms for around six years now, and in my time I've encountered my fair share of confounding and infuriating problems. I'm recounting them here to preserve ...

The cat is out of the bag and Steve Ballmer's worst nightmare has just come true. Microsoft, once the most outspoken enemy of Linux and open source software, not only loves it but may have just become ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. I once had a conversation with an Ubuntu Budgie developer who ...

Is the Linux kernel a security problem? Security is an ongoing issue for all operating systems, including Linux. While Linux has generally had a good reputation compared to Windows when it comes to ...

Ok, I've had far to many threads on this topic, here is the one, true final one. This is a copy of an email to the school LUG that i'm a member of.<P>All right, I'm setting up a Pentium 200 MMX w/ 64 ...

When you’re running low on storage, you can move Timeshift to an external drive or reduce the frequency of snapshots. If you ...

I don’t often write about the ways Linux sucks – I usually save that for my yearly rant. The other 364.25 days of the year I prefer to focus on the things that I love about Linux. And there are plenty ...

The Open Source and Linux ecosystems (and the various communities within them) are, in general, pretty awesome – providing advancement and support of a wide array of software to everything from ...

One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his Open Source Summit Europe keynote speech, MDS, Fallout, Zombieland, and Linux, by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: I have ...

Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite ...

Linux offers control, security, and freedom, but its learning curve, software, and hardware issues may challenge some users.