Ubuntu Cinnamon combines familiarity and strong hardware support, making it the perfect secondary OS for your PC.

Whether you like it or not, Windows 10 is going away, and it's time to pick a new OS. When Windows 10 support ends, I'm ...

Four years after launching Windows 11 and prodding PC owners to update, Microsoft has finally decided that it's time force ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...

A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.

Microsoft last week released an updated monitoring pack for System Center 2012 running on Windows Server 2008 that provides reporting capabilities for Unix and Linux servers. The pack, called "System ...

COMMENTARY--Whoever said the first casualty of war is truth would be surprised to find that apothegm quoted in a dispute between systems vendors. But it is an apt description of current events. The ...

All Linux systems have a little-known system restart function built in to the underlying kernel. Even if your computer is completely unresponsive, and pressing "Ctrl," "Alt" and "Backspace" together ...

There are quite a few ways to send email from the Unix command line and so many good reasons for doing so. You might want to provide feedback on automated processes so that you and fellow admins know ...