Linux users have been deprived of a good photo editing app for years, but Affinity may just have changed the game thanks to a ...

Ambitious plans by Bergen to move to an open source desktop environment have been suspended. Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, special advisor on contracts and technology at Bergen, said on Monday that the desktop ...

Now, a new open source project is seeking to extend Linux interoperability further back into PC gaming history. The d7vk project describes itself as “a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 ...

IBM's chief information officer has directed the company to begin an internal project to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. A ...

Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build Old school enough to favor Debian, but averse to systemd? Good news: Devuan 6 ...

The search giant is working to allow Rust code in the Linux kernel, a major technological and cultural shift after decades using only C. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Six Linux Foundation open source networking projects are combining into one new project known as the LF Networking Fund (LFN). The six initial projects are ONAP, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, FD.io, PNDA, and ...

As a supplier of embedded processor boards, developers are telling us in unambiguous terms that Linux' numerous advantages clearly outweigh its shortcomings. While Linux it is a moving target — with ...

My favorite PC game of all time was Interstate '76. It was really unique in its gameplay and has the best soundtrack for a game ever, featuring 70's funk, where I would pop in the cd on my computer ...

I discovered Linux the way most people did, through word of mouth in the 1990s, when rumors spread of a free “hobbyist” OS designed to run on x86 PCs. For the first decade of Linux’s 25 years, Linux ...

Big Blue's CIO has directed the company to begin an internal initiative to evaluate Linux for use on desktop computers, a further endorsement of the open-source operating system. Stephen Shankland ...