Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may ...

“Free software” is a term that’s often used interchangeably with “open source,” and often understood simply to mean software that is obtained without charge. However, the idea of free software is ...

If you thought you knew every Linux distro, think again. These obscure distros are fascinating and impressive. You can download and install each of these for free. It ...

Puzzle GNU/Linux is a strange OS distribution that shows the value of open source ingenuity. This Linux distro is built around a hybrid desktop that is highly customizable.You might get the impression ...

Unix, one of the earliest computer-operating systems, was developed between the late nineteen-sixties and the early nineteen-eighties, by A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories and various universities around ...

After putting this question to the experts, the conclusion is that no matter what you call it, it's still Linux at its core. Should the Linux operating system be called "Linux" or "GNU/Linux"? These ...

To this day, I can still remember the first time I logged into Linux and how it looked. It was Caldera Open Linux 1.0 with the Fvwm95 desktop. It was ugly (even at the time) and completely different ...

Most consumers can, with a little effort, name two desktop and laptop operating systems: Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS. Few have ever considered any of the open-source alternatives found under ...