For many first-time Linux users, Zorin OS becomes the starting point of a longer journey. It offers familiarity without ...

The use of closed-source software to give Linux slick graphics is keeping a thorny legal and philosophical dispute alive. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

__ 1991: __Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old university student from Finland, writes a post to a user group asking for feedback on a little project he's working on. He's built a simple kernel for a ...

Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fueling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux? The issue involves software modules called drivers, which plug into ...