Linux certainly has established itself as a prominent server OS these days, pushing Unix into the background. But the open source OS shares the stage with commercial software giant Microsoft, which ...

Windows support is readily available in most parts of the world. You can get it from Microsoft and other third parties. Linux support is becoming more available from commercial sources, better than it ...

We love to watch a good dogfight, especially when the two opponents can be considered rivals. You know, Celtics versus Lakers (go Celtics!), Red Sox versus Yankees (go Red Sox!), and so forth. In the ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

Is this battle really the fight of the new century? Or should these old warhorses shake hands and just get along? The fight between Windows and Linux has been nearly as overhyped as a Don King venture ...

You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

For those who are looking to replace Windows 10, you might be wondering just how different Windows and Linux are. Beyond the usual concerns for the user interface, there's also security to take into ...

Linux can support these workflows, but the experience is less uniform. Sandboxing can restrict access to external drives. Applications sometimes disagree on where data should live. Symlinks, bind ...

Linux driver issues tend to be rarer today, but can also be harder to untangle when they do happen. Problems can be tied to specific kernels, desktop environments, or distro-specific patches. Two ...

It appears that a portion of Microsoft’s Windows 7 training materials have been released into the wild by a Best Buy employee. Why is this news? Well, a section of the training compared Windows 7 to ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...