It is fair to say that Wall Street is neither a place given to bouts of whimsy, nor one inclined to tolerate that trait in others. But when executives began first learning about Linux, an operating ...

Linux is already at your party. John Vetterli, CC BY Every operating system has technical issues and Linux has not been faultless. But some key technological milestones have been passed in recent ...

Software radical Richard Stallman helped build the Linux revolution. Now he threatens to tear it apart. The free Linux operating system set off one of the biggest revolutions in the history of ...

“I’ve felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn’t have a niche or any special market, but that different individuals and companies end up pushing it in the direction they want…” Linus ...

Intuit has been sniffing around open source for at least a year now, but predominately as a platform (Linux) upon which its applications could run. It opened the door a bit more in April when it ...

It's nice to see open source software driving a revolution in smartphones -- and small PCs. Google's Linux-based Android operating system powers the industry's latest must have, the Motorola Droid.

I often come across articles and commentary from people in the open source world that Ubuntu and Canonical are making a difference in the desktop Linux space and they ...

As consumer electronics (CE) vendors vie for market share, consumers are asking designers to cram more functions into every new product or update. To deal with this complexity, 32-bit processors, ...

The mass migration of big-name triple-A games to Linux continues, as publishers rush to have top titles available for the 2015 launch of Valve’s SteamOS operating system. On Thursday, Feral ...

It's a little hard to imagine an über-geek like Linus Torvalds getting the full-on rock-star treatment and having to urge an exuberant crowd to settle down, but that was just what happened at the ...