Long ago, I stuck with Windows because I misjudged Linux. Now, I wish to clear up some misunderstandings; here are 6 things ...

However, NixOS has become popular, especially for its declarative configuration model, which enables reproducible systems and ...

"Marley was dead, to begin with."—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. As you surely know by now, Linux Journal started in 1994, which means it has been around for most of the Linux story. A lot has ...

Lightweight Linux distributions get a bad rap for shipping with minimal reinstalled software. Besgnulinux, loaded with old-school charm, is the exception.

You know who you are: the guy who doesn’t do Linux. Windows works fine, all of your software works under Windows, and things are much cooler when you don’t have to worry about all that command-line ...

There are quite a lot of layers to unpack behind the ideas in the Loss32 proposal. The name is, of course, a pun on the name ...

Commentary - Even after ten years of successful mainframe deployments, people and organizations not familiar with mainframe Linux often still see the operating system as suitable only for commodity ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers. Today, 100 new ones join each second. And running deep within the silicon souls of most of these machines is the work of a technical ...

More proof, if you will, that the traditional keyboard and multi-button mouse config is boring legacy tech to the hipsters in ...

Judging by this year's numbers from statCounter, Haiti may be gravitating way way away from Windows after Vista 10 reached its end of life. Windows became scarce there, mostly or partly due to some ...