SAN DIEGO--End users and Linux can be like men and marriage--they like the idea, but commitment is a bear. An Austin, Texas-based software maker hopes to make it easier with products that allow ...

Linare, a seller of cheap Linux PCs, plans to offer a free e-mail service for fans of the open-source operating system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Software maker Trustix AS this week formally unveiled a deal with IBM to jointly market and sell its secure Linux software in the U.S. on hardware from Big Blue. Trustix, of Trondheim, Norway, ...

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Linux has come a very long way. Not only is the kernel far more sophisticated and capable than during the 1990s, but the GUIs make everything so easy that working with the operating system is almost ...

System76 has been selling Linux laptop and desktop computers for years. But for most of that time the company has been buying OEM designs and slapping its own software on top. Recently System76 ...

IBM (NYSE:IBM) stock continues to struggle. Since hitting highs above $215 per share in 2013, the shares have seen a steady decline. Today, the IBM stock price has fallen below $132 per share. Amid ...

The head of security firm Open Source Security, Brad Spengler, says he had little option but to file a lawsuit against open source advocate Bruce Perens, who alleged back in 2017 that security patches ...

The smartphone world is dominated by Apple and Android with Windows Phone playing a distant third and then all others far behind the top three. Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu Linux are now saying ...

Microsoft Corp. has bought Kinvolk GmbH, the Berlin-based startup behind a specialized Linux distribution used to power software container environments on Azure and other public clouds. The technology ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

It was just a few months ago that Mandriva Linux 2011 made its official debut, but now it looks like the company behind it may soon be forced to close its doors. Mandriva has been suffering from ...