Linux and open source aren't making headlines at CES 2026, but they're working behind the scenes in embedded, automotive, and ...

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Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it provided a single open operating system that everyone could use. With the ...

If you miss the simplicity or design aesthetic of 1990s Linux computing, there's some good news. A project to port KDE 1 and ...

The Linux desktop has been around for more than a decade now. Despite its best efforts, and Microsoft’s dumbest missteps — I’m looking at you, Vista — it’s never owned more than a fraction of the ...

Wayland is no longer experimental. These five Linux distros already ship with Wayland as the default instead of X11.

Linux is all about choice, and choosing a distribution is only the first step. Linux distros usually have a default desktop environment, but there are a slew of desktop environments available to use.

Microsoft is doing its best to bury desktop Linux with lies — but at least one major vendor, Dell, isn’t just continuing to deliver laptops and netbooks with Ubuntu Linux; it’s actually upgrading the ...