Free, open-source, and trending hard—these three apps deserve an hour of your weekend to install and set up.

The generative AI boom has caused a lot of hardware pricing problems, and also a fair amount of security issues - which ...

What began as a Finnish student's personal project in 1991 has transformed into a global computing powerhouse. Linus Torvalds ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

AMD Vivado licensing update sparks backlash after free Linux support was removed from future FPGA software releases, raising concerns over new licensing changes ...

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages. The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new ...

Linux users have long faced a frustrating limitation with wireless earbuds: basic Bluetooth audio usually works, but advanced features often remain locked behind proprietary mobile apps. A new ...

Since Sony’s PlayStation 5 console is quite literally an AMD-based gaming PC with a custom mainboard, the only thing that really keeps anyone from just installing another operating system on it is the ...

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...