It's not Linux, or even Unix.

A couple of weeks ago, Canonical – the people behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution – hosted a talk by the great Scott Jenson, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux is an operating system that allows you to interact with the applications you need to use daily. In that respect, it's no different than MacOS or Windows. Although Linux might not be on the mind ...

CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Besides his work with CNET, Don's work has been featured in a ...

If you’re in the market for a Linux distribution that offers advanced package and system management, NixOS is a platform that might catch your interest. It stands out with its unique approach to ...