Windows may seem easier, but Linux has a lot of advantages over it. You might not even know these features exist, but they're ...

Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century.

The latest Steam update finally offers CPU temperature tracking, but it requires Windows kernel access. Find out if it's safe.

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...

Here’s a look at why executives at CRN’s Security Roundtable said Microsoft’s dual role as an operating system provider and a ...

UEFI was initially developed by Intel as a firmware for its Itanium-based high-end datacenter computers. That was in the late ...

Oracle has updated the kernel of its Linux distribution to take advantage of the latest Linux advances, the company announced Tuesday. It also previewed a number of new features, including a module ...

Throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s, Terry iterated on his OS project once called J Operating System, eventually coined ...

Ubuntu Server, developed by Canonical Ltd., is a free, open-source Linux distribution based on Debian. Widely recognized for its ease of use and robust performance, Ubuntu Server hosts websites, file ...

Google has unveiled KataOS, an early exploration into a new secure operating system for embedded systems on open-source RISC-V chips. Google's KataOS is written "almost entirely in Rust", the ...