Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

One of the first steps in understanding your Linux distro and kernel is knowing the version that they are currently running. This gives you an idea of what features are available at your disposal as ...

A Linux distribution, or distro. ... When discussing operating systems that use the Linux kernel, the terms ‘distribution,’ ‘distro’ and ‘operating system’ are interchangeable.

Microsoft’s push to get PC makers to physical “Copilot” keys to devices means the Linux kernel needs to accommodate it, which Linux 6.14 duly does. A mapping for the Microsoft Copilot keyboard key has ...

Another method is to use the lscpu command to get the model name and other info about the installed CPU. The top entry for ...

We show you how to install and update Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 11 with the latest kernel and the Linux distribution of your choice. By Markus Kasanmascheff.

End users shouldn’t go out and download Linux 6.16 when it’s released, instead just wait for your Linux distribution to update to it, as distribution-specific changes get made.

Working at the intersection of Apple's newest hardware and Linux kernel development, for the benefit of a free distribution, was never going to be easy.But it's been an especially hard couple of ...