Maybe there is such a thing as a free lunch – when it comes to computer programs, at least. Linux, a clone of commercial UNIX operating systems, allows users to run off any number of software programs ...

Corrections: A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows. An article last Sunday about the Linux operating system Ubuntu, using information from its maker, Canonical, referred erroneously to ...

Linux is an operating system similar to — though, as we’ll see, not directly descended from — Unix. Like most Unix-like OSes, Linux is made up of several components. The kernel ...

Linux came about in the mid-1990s, when then-student Linus Torvalds was tasked with creating a disk driver so he could read the Minix file system. (Minix is a POSIX-compliant, UNIX-like operating ...

Like Unix, Linux is an operating system, but Linux is designed to provide a free or very low-cost user experience compared to the sometimes more expensive Unix systems. The central part of the ...

While UNIX laid the groundwork for modern operating systems, Linux harnessed the potential of open-source philosophy to democratize software development. As we navigate an increasingly complex digital ...

Such is the case with the latest release of BlueStar Linux: a distro that essentially takes KDE Plasma and twists it into a ...

It may look intimidating, but the Linux filesystem isn’t a maze of dead ends. Here’s the map that you need to learn more about an OS that runs on computers big and small.

The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on. Unix can be a ...

News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index Linux (Computer Operating System) ...