The maker of the Orange Pi line of single-board computers (among other things) offers a handful of Android or Linux images that can be installed on most of the company’s products. But for the most ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

There are fast computers, and then there are Linux fast computers. Every six months, the Top 500 organization announces “its ranked list of general purpose systems that are in common use for high end ...

PC gaming has been popular for decades, but there’s still something charming about classic game consoles that booted quickly, featured a minimal operating system, and let you play games by inserting a ...

Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that will almost ...

Why it matters: Debian is not the oldest Linux operating system out there, being just a month "younger" than Slackware. But the project started by Ian Murdock certainly is the most successful, as it ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

Something has gone seriously wrong: SBAT self-check failed: Security Policy Violation.” According to Microsoft, the bug only affects older versions of Linux-based operating systems, but apparently it ...

Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what Linux really thinks about open source, Windows, Macs ...