The above video may or may not be an accurate depiction of the early days of Linux. In Helsinki in 1991, a college student named Linus Torvalds was working on what was “initially a terminal emulator, ...

Today we’re going to look at Linux. Not as a competitor to Windows and not as a repository of proprietary code (as SCO would have you believe), but as an alternative operating system that might have a ...

Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down.

Whether you use it every day or you've never even heard of it, Linux is undeniably important to computing history. It's been around in one form or another since the early 90s and continues to be a ...

The evolution of computing has been marked by a series of paradigm shifts, from mainframes to personal computers, and now to the cloud. Currently, the common path to deploying web infrastructure is to ...

Linux Mint was first released in ͏2006 as an Ubuntu-based distri͏bution. It was designed to provide a user-friendly and ͏elegant desktop environment for users tran͏sitioning from Windows. The project ...

In honor of Linux Week at CrunchGear, here is a great moment in Linux history. John Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, former East Coast Editor and current contributing writer for TechCrunch.