If you don't know what the Linux desktop operating system is, or if you're new to it, Jack Wallen's quick explainer will get you up to speed. Linux. What is it? At one point in time it was a niche ...

Linux, a clone of UNIX operating systems, is free to download, but users still pay for service and support. Maybe there is such a thing as a free lunch — when it comes to computer programs, at least.

A devoted practitioner offers an eyewitness account of the rise of Linux and the open source movement, plus analysis of where Linux is taking us now I walked into an apartment in Boston on a sunny day ...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Microsoft uses the monopoly power of its Windows personal computer operating system to intimidate computer makers into giving the rival Linux operating system short shrift, a Red ...