The effort to standardize the way Linux works has moved several steps closer to reality in the last two weeks. The effort, through Linux Standard Base (LSB) and several other projects, is Linux's ...

For decades, Microsoft has released completely separate operating systems for desktops and servers. They certainly share plenty of code, but you cannot turn a Windows 7 system into a Windows Server ...

A standards effort is Linux's answer to avoiding some of the fragmentation that split Unix into several incompatible versions. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

One of the unwritten rules of computing says that, as various storage media grow in size, so do the files that are written to them. I recently found myself staring at two files, each roughly 4 GB in ...

The Linux Standard Base has released its penultimate version of a standard that will make it easier to guarantee software will work with different versions of the Linux operating system. The new ...