Open-source GNU/Linux operating systems, for all their complications and confusing nomenclature, span a universe of alternatives to Windows and macOS worth exploring. Ben has covered consumer tech for ...

A production version of the free GNU operating system is likely to be available by year’s end, said the president of Boston-based Free Software Foundation Inc. (FSF) in an interview. “We actually have ...

The Free Software Foundation celebrated "the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement," with an announcement calling it "a turning point in the history ...

So far this week (since Monday) we've added about 40 pages a day. There has been a lot of press coverage about GNU/Linux ...

Before Linux, GNU was working on its own Mach-based Unix compatible OS. Now, in the footsteps of Debian 13, there is a new release.… Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 is the latest release of the other GNU ...

Gnome is an acronym for GNU Object Model Environment. That by itself doesn’t convey much information, though the GNU part (itself an acronym for GNU’s Not Unix) is a tip-off that the Gnome Project is ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...

Business leaders like Ransom Love, chief executive of Caldera, might say that revenues are the way forward for GNU/Linux, but Richard Stallman is having none of it. Linux is moving slowly but surely ...

SCO's contract dispute with IBM has been accompanied by a smear campaign against the whole GNU/Linux system. But SCO made an obvious mistake when it erroneously quoted me as saying that "Linux is a ...

Linux is widely referred to as a free and open source operating system, but most Linux distributions, or flavors, aren’t actually entirely free. Yes, they’re certainly free in price (unless, of course ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...