If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems ...

"When mentioning GNU/Linux desktop marketshare," one reader opined, "please keep in mind that the market share which matters most is OEM market share. When people can once again buy systems off the ...

An early distribution, Yggdrasil, used the term "Linux/GNU/X" in 1992, and shortly thereafter the terms "GNU/Linux" and "GNU+Linux" began showing up in Usenet and mailing-list discussions. Debian, ...

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating ...

While "the news" spreads phony numbers for Microsoft [ 1, 2] (the scale of layoffs is a lot greater than what they claim) let's examine what's happening to Windows in its home country. The US ...

Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

GNU/Linux. The majority of Linux distributions are a combination of the Linux kernel plus GNU software, which has led a vocal minority to argue that we should all be referring to Linux as GNU/Linux.

Lindroid is a new open source app that lets you install a GNU/Linux distro on an Android device and run Linux applications with full support for your phone’s hardware.. It does this by putting ...