In today's open source roundup: Gentoo has much to offer experienced Linux users. Plus: Is it easy to avoid systemd in Debian? And Civilization: Beyond Earth is coming to Linux for the holidays Gentoo ...

Linux has been around since 1996 and has, over the years, been maligned as being too difficult for average users. In some cases, there were claims that Linux was simply too challenging for anyone who ...

Microsoft Corp. spent a considerable amount of time, money and energy trying to convince corporate IT shops that moving from Windows to Linux servers wouldn’t make sense — but at least for now, it’s ...

Windows 8 systems certified to run on ARM will not have the option to turn Secure Boot mode off. This will make installing Linux more difficult.

Short of a couple of games, there's one app that's made the switch to Linux difficult — Lossless Scaling. It's actually an app I need more on Linux than I do on Windows, as both AMD and Nvidia don't ...

Ubuntu Studio comes preloaded for visual art, 3D, music production, and more. Just install one ISO and start creating instead ...

In the comments to my recent post about dumping Windows and installing Linux Mint, in just 10 minutes, someone asked for an article about how to actually do things in Linux. That's certainly a fair ...

Wikipedia gives a short history of Linux. A list of some of the more popular versions for 2015 together with their relative virtues can be found here. Until the development of Windows 8, it was ...

Theo de Raadt is a pioneer of the open source software movement and a huge proponent of free software. But he is no fan of the open source Linux operating system. "It's terrible," De Raadt says.

With Windows 8 coming out later this year, there has already been controversy about whether computers that ship with Windows 8 will have the ability to run Linux, either as a replacement for Windows ...