Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

Wayback is an experimental X compatibility layer which allows for running full X desktop environments using Wayland ...

Even if you’re not a long-time Linux user, the terminal is still great as a way to quickly jump around your system settings and local files. Much like keyboard shortcuts, if you take the time to learn ...

Be cautious in the Linux terminal to avoid system damage. Dangerous commands to watch out for include rm and dd. Running as a ...

Free Software is an expressly left-wing sort of proposition that was formalized in the 1980s. It uses the ambiguous word ...

The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2025-32462 (severity score 2.8/10 - low severity), and CVE-2025-32463 (severity score ...

Two flaws, one undetected for over a decade, allow unintended root access on Ubuntu and Debian systems, prompting urgent ...

NVIDIA recently announced an important change for users running Unix-based systems with older GPUs. Their 580 series driver release will be the last one that supports graphics cards built on the ...

Handy Recovery Advisor, a resource for data recovery tips and digital safety advice, has published the results of a ...

Over on The Full Nerd podcast, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 is known as The GOAT, the graphics card that still hasn’t been ...

Apple hides the user’s Library folder by default, but an obscure method to show it permanently lets you avoid pressing Option to access it in the Finder’s Go menu.