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What operating system do you use? For some, that question may as well be posed in Latin or Sanskrit. For others, it’s an invitation to have a heated debate about the benefits of GUI vs. command line, ...

I started using Linux back in 1997. I had been using Windows 95 and found it to be, well, unreliable. Although I wound up tossing myself into the open-source deep end without a lifeboat, it didn't ...

Linux turns 35 years this year, and the operating system remains the backbone of most supercomputers. Here's why the world's fastest machines don't use Windows.

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Security researchers are warning of a new “logic flaw” in Linux called Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), a critical vulnerability that poses a threat to all users running a Linux-based operating system.

Linux (come on, you knew it’d be Linux) takes a different approach: no locks, no guardrails, no limits. That’s what makes Linux a real operating system, something its competitors, dwarfing it in ...

Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what Linux really thinks about open source, Windows, Macs ...

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital ...