29-years in the making, the Linux kernel just accepted its millionth commit. The greatest open-source project of all time has come a long way from its "hobby" beginnings.

Linux entered the world of technology with little more than a kernel to call its own. That was the intent of a young computer science student from Helsinki named Linus Torvalds in doing this personal ...

Today we're going to look at Linux. Not as a competitor to Windows and not as a repository of proprietary code (as SCO would have you believe), but as an alternative operating system that might ...

The lessons of Linux To understand the potential of a decentralized cloud, we need only look at the history of the Linux operating system.

Back in 1996, several members of the Linux kernel mailing list were chatting about a suitable logo and mascot for the new operating system.

But if you want to browse the internet, stream, or use most productivity software or office suites, you’ll find a capable ...

Google said Thursday it's funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in the Rust programming language, a modernization effort that could bolster ...