Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...

Modern Linux distributions are powerful operating systems that can fully replace Windows or macOS for many users. But there are still some Windows-only applications that may not be available for Linux ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

I use Windows because I have to, and Linux because I want to.

It was a big year for Linux in 2001, from IBM’s $1 billion commitment to the introduction of the latest feature-laden kernel updates. At vendor Red Hat Inc., 2001 saw the introduction of new Linux ...