Late last week, with the help of Network World’s resident Linux guru, Armen Brown, my ancient spare XP PC was converted into a Linux PC running the Ubuntu distro (with the Gnome desktop). Thus began ...

Why don’t I migrate to Linux? Let me count the ways,” began reader Tom Staight’s response to my recent column, Why aren’t you migrating to Linux? Of all the topics I’ve disemboweled in this space in ...

Something that I quickly gravitated towards is a desktop environment called KDE Plasma. If you're unsure what a "desktop ...

Only 3 years ago, we lived in a world where reviewing new AMD hardware on Linux — even months after its release — was problematic at best. My Radeon RX 6800 review here at Forbes was limited to ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

We take a look back at five of our favorite memories from 2025, as well as two hilarious and frustrating foibles.

The Linux seller says its new customer will move from Microsoft Windows to its open-source software for database systems--a tougher proposition than a Unix-to-Linux switch. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

I’ve been a PC gamer for over 30 years, and during that time, Microsoft’s operating systems (first MS-DOS, then various shades of Windows) have essentially been the default choice when building or ...

Creative has launched their new Zen Portable Media Player, which is a Windows Powered (TM) device<BR><BR>http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=210 ...