News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Two Operating Systems, One PC Is it possible to install Ubuntu Linux on my Windows XP computer so I can have both systems on one machine — without having to reinstall Windows?

Linux. You have probably heard about this operating system over the years, but what is it really? What can you do with it? How do you get a copy? Well, the answers are easier than you can possibly ...

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 ...

Companies like Valve have demonstrated that strategic vision and thoughtful integration can make Linux viable for large ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Linux, the open-source operating system with an outsider mystique, is now proliferating on powerful government computer systems in the United States and abroad with technology ...

The Linux operating system is the most successful in the free, open-source category. Here are tips on maximizing its security features.

Bharat Operating System Solutions is an Indian Linux distribution derived from Debian. IT is developed by CDAC and is customized to suit Indian's digital environment.

A comparison of the networks formed by genetic code and the Linux operating system has given insight into the fundamental differences between biological and computational programming. The shapes ...

The vast majority of users consider the computer Operating System (OS) to be a commodity i.e. just a piece of infrastructure that has to be there, but not an entity that might influence the way we ...