Parental controls are outdated. Make your PC fun for all ages using operating systems designed specifically for tech-savvy tykes.

Is this the era of free operating systems? Microsoft's "devices and services" mantra means that the company, eventually, has to make Windows free. Written by Matt Baxter-Reynolds, Contributor ...

Free Open Source Operating Systems Today I will list some of the most popular, open-source, and therefore free, operating systems available to computer users.

Will we give up a decades-long relationship with Windows just because it costs a few bucks more than its competitors? In a world where PC adoption has cratered, what of the future of Windows ...

Thanks to continuous improvements, Google’s Chrome operating system for PCs may be the future of computing, offering advantages for most of what people need to accomplish on a computer. That ...

So, I have steered away from recommending Linux, the free computer operating system that is the darling of many techies and IT managers, and a challenger to Microsoft's dominant Windows and Apple ...

News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

You’ll all be familiar with the PC, the ubiquitous x86-powered workhorse of desktop and portable computing. All modern PCs are descendants of the original from IBM, the model 5150 which made … ...