SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work by developing a free operating system that will attack Microsoft Corp.’s golden goose — its ...

“Please don’t call GNU ‘Linux’,” says Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation. In this interview, he also asks readers whether they will fight for freedom or be too lazy to ...

We’ve seen a bunch of efforts to develop free and open source smartphone operating systems over the past decade. But most have relied on at least some proprietary drivers and other software – even on ...

You've probably guessed by now that this article is going to head towards discussing Linux - but Linux is far from the only free Operating System. OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, GNU/HURD, as well as a ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

When Apple released Mavericks, the latest version of Mac’s operating system, they announced quite a few features. But the biggest news about Mavericks wasn’t a technical feature, but rather the price: ...