SALT LAKE CITY - When Utah technology executive Darl McBride sniffs Linux, the free computer operating system, he picks up a scent of Unix, a long-established business system he maintains made 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 ...

Computer maker Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday plans for inexpensive desktop computers based on the free Linux operating system in a bid to undermine archrival Microsoft. Marking a second plunge ...

Why it matters: Debian is not the oldest Linux operating system out there, being just a month "younger" than Slackware. But the project started by Ian Murdock certainly is the most successful, as it ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to sell inexpensive server computers that run the free Linux operating system, a growing market in which analysts had said they may be losing sales to ...

There’s no shortage of Linux operating systems available. However, many Linux distributions (distros) are niche OSes. For instance, Kali Linux is an ethical hacking and penetration testing Linux ...

Linux doesn’t hide the system behind guardrails. Here’s why its freedom, flexibility, and control still outclass the ...

Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...