For many first-time Linux users, Zorin OS becomes the starting point of a longer journey. It offers familiarity without ...

I'm no stranger to weird operating systems. I've run Tails from a USB stick (an OS that blew the lid off the NSA) and ...

If you want to run a clone of Microsoft Windows to escape the drama of upgrading to Windows 10, try ReactOS — but do not expect it to be a fully functional replacement any time soon. ReactOS is a free ...

It has been a long wait, but ReactOS has finally released a new version of the OS. While the update might seem minor considering it only went from 0.3.13 to 0.3.14 there are major new features in this ...

News briefs for March 4, 2019. Linux kernel 5.0 is out. Linus writes, "We have more than a handful of real fixes in the last week, but not enough to make me go "Hmm, things are really unstable". In ...

Frankly, I’m burned out on all of the Windows news as of late, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about some interesting alternate operating systems that are free ALL of the time... If you ...

ReactOS is an implementation of Windows Server 2003, still in alpha stage, and very interesting. But it is no threat to Windows. None at all. Especially compared with Linux. Here's why. Sponsors.

After a wave of operating system releases, it's easy to become somewhat bored with the software side of computing. Windows 7 is here and looking like the "real" Vista for many; Mac OS X 10.6, ...

In the crowd of GNU/Linux and BSD users that throng our community, it’s easy to forget that those two families are not the only games in the open-source operating system town. One we’ve casually kept ...

News briefs for November 6, 2018. VMware has acquired Heptio, which was founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, two of the creators of Kubernetes. TechCrunch reports that the terms of the deal aren't ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...