Your PC has more options than the usual household names.

You don’t have a huge number of choices when it comes to your computer's operating system, but the one you pick has wide-ranging consequences. PCMag has been testing operating systems since the dawn ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that will almost ...

In brief: New data reveals how the American desktop landscape is shifting. Linux has achieved a new milestone in the United States, breaking the 5 percent barrier for desktop operating system market ...

Andrew Warkentin's Virtual OS Museum packages 600-plus historical operating systems into a downloadable Linux VM, with Full and Lite editions for offline use.

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.