29-years in the making, the Linux kernel just accepted its millionth commit. The greatest open-source project of all time has come a long way from its "hobby" beginnings.

On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds announced a hobby project that evolved into Linux, one of the most important computing ...

Linux entered the world of technology with little more than a kernel to call its own. That was the intent of a young computer science student from Helsinki named Linus Torvalds in doing this personal ...

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 ...

On the year of Linux's 30th anniversary, Jack Wallen ponders how the open-source operating system has profoundly affected the landscape of enterprise businesses.

Open source has won the present, but what about the future? In the March 2018 issue of Linux Journal, I wrote an article taking a look back over the previous decade. An astonishing amount has changed ...

The lessons of Linux To understand the potential of a decentralized cloud, we need only look at the history of the Linux operating system.

Back in 1996, several members of the Linux kernel mailing list were chatting about a suitable logo and mascot for the new operating system.

The Linux desktop landscape is a diverse place. As an open-source operating system, anyone can take the code, make whatever changes they want, and release it as their own custom distribution.

The Clear Linux OS team has announced the shutdown of the project, marking the end of its 10-year existence in the open-source ecosystem.