Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. I once had a conversation with an Ubuntu Budgie developer who ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his Open Source Summit Europe keynote speech, MDS, Fallout, Zombieland, and Linux, by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: I have ...

Is the Linux kernel a security problem? Security is an ongoing issue for all operating systems, including Linux. While Linux has generally had a good reputation compared to Windows when it comes to ...

The cat is out of the bag and Steve Ballmer's worst nightmare has just come true. Microsoft, once the most outspoken enemy of Linux and open source software, not only loves it but may have just become ...

The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. Canonical, which sponsors the popular ...

Linux developers have introduced NTFSPlus, a new in-kernel driver designed to address long-standing problems with NTFS support on Linux systems, an issue that has affected desktop users, system ...

USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...

When we installed Linux on Intel's Haswell NUC, the biggest problem we encountered involved booting the computer after the install process was complete. We've been talking with Intel's NUC team since ...

Ok, I've had far to many threads on this topic, here is the one, true final one. This is a copy of an email to the school LUG that i'm a member of.<P>All right, I'm setting up a Pentium 200 MMX w/ 64 ...

I've been regularly using Linux in various forms for around six years now, and in my time I've encountered my fair share of confounding and infuriating problems. I'm recounting them here to preserve ...

I don’t often write about the ways Linux sucks – I usually save that for my yearly rant. The other 364.25 days of the year I prefer to focus on the things that I love about Linux. And there are plenty ...

Google’s constant pursuit of a better Chrome OS experience has now resulted in one problem being fixed on the Linux side of things but it’s also broken aspect of the functionality, based on recent ...