News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

I've used both Linux and MacOS for years. But if you have to decide between them, ask yourself these seven simple questions.

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking ...

With 16GB of RAM, you can open far more tabs in your browser, do some gaming, use virtual machines, develop, and create video ...

Kazeta is a new Linux-based operating system that brings that kind of experience to modern PCs. Developed by the founder of ...

Damn Small Linux is a light-weight operating system designed to run on older computers which might not have the speedy processors, large hard drives, or vast amounts of RAM available on newer systems.

Linux is a great place to learn terminal commands, along with many other fundamentals of a modern operating system.

Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and single-board computers possess limited memory and processing ...

The vast majority of users consider the computer Operating System (OS) to be a commodity i.e. just a piece of infrastructure that has to be there, but not an entity that might influence the way we ...

Two Operating Systems, One PC Is it possible to install Ubuntu Linux on my Windows XP computer so I can have both systems on one machine — without having to reinstall Windows?