I've been regularly using Linux in various forms for around six years now, and in my time I've encountered my fair share of confounding and infuriating problems. I'm recounting them here to preserve ...

The cat is out of the bag and Steve Ballmer's worst nightmare has just come true. Microsoft, once the most outspoken enemy of Linux and open source software, not only loves it but may have just become ...

The Open Source and Linux ecosystems (and the various communities within them) are, in general, pretty awesome – providing advancement and support of a wide array of software to everything from ...

Despite its (at the time) high-end Core i7 CPU and 32GB of RAM, Windows was frustratingly slow on it. The fan was constantly at full throttle even when the machine was idle, and it regularly failed to ...

After 30 years with Linux, I switched it for Windows 11 - and found 9 serious problems ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his Open Source Summit Europe keynote speech, MDS, Fallout, Zombieland, and Linux, by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: I have ...

Like all operating systems, Linux isn't perfectly secure. Nothing is. As security guru, Bruce Schneier said, "Security is a process, not a product." It's just that, generally speaking, Linux is more ...