On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds announced a hobby project that evolved into Linux, one of the most important computing ...

Aug. 25 marks the 25th anniversary of Linux, the free and open source operating system that’s used around the globe in smarphones, tablets, desktop PCs, servers, supercomputers, and more. Though its ...

Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down.

Today we’re going to look at Linux. Not as a competitor to Windows and not as a repository of proprietary code (as SCO would have you believe), but as an alternative operating system that might have a ...

The evolution of computing has been marked by a series of paradigm shifts, from mainframes to personal computers, and now to the cloud. Currently, the common path to deploying web infrastructure is to ...

Dell said last week it was considering certifying Linux on some of its desktops and notebooks. And then somebody translated that to mean Dell would offer factory-loaded Linux on specific SKUs of PCs.

Ready to make the Linux history command work harder to serve your needs? Let's look at some new tricks you might want to shove up your sleeve. The Linux history command allows users to repeat commands ...

Having a history of shell commands is a great idea. It is, of course, enormously handy when you have to run something repetitively or you make a simple mistake that needs correction. However, as I’ve ...