I discovered Linux the way most people did, through word of mouth in the 1990s, when rumors spread of a free “hobbyist” OS designed to run on x86 PCs. For the first decade of Linux’s 25 years, Linux ...

After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. Read now Back in 1992, the idea you could make a business from Linux seemed ...

A devoted practitioner offers an eyewitness account of the rise of Linux and the open source movement, plus analysis of where Linux is taking us now I walked into an apartment in Boston on a sunny day ...

Happy Birthday, Linux! You’re 25! When Linux was born on Aug. 25, 1991, it was little more than a hobby for then-21-year-old Linus Torvalds. Today the Linux community is estimated to be upwards of 86 ...

It all began when 20-year-old Linus Torvalds, pictured here in a photo from the early 1990s, was a computer science student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Having begun his tech adventures ...

MX Linux 25 updates its base to Debian Trixie. When downloading, interested users must decide whether they want systemd or ...