I know this sounds like it should go to the Battlefront, but not yet. I am looking for the basic utilities, ie text editor, shell, libraries all the non kernel stuff that is needed for Linux to run.

GNU/Linux felt like "activism" 20 years ago. Now it's mainstream. Advocates can relax more (or for longer). The man who ...

"Linux" (as in GNU/Linux) started in 1983, not in 1991. It started in Boston, not in Helsinki. GNU started because of the need for freedom; it wasn't about cost-saving ambitions (Torvalds wanted to ...

Richard Stallman, founder of the Boston-based Free Software Foundation, has created a new version of his GNU General Public License, or GPL, under which many free software programs are distributed.

commentary Judging by his latest blog entry, Sun COO and president Jonathan Schwartz has something new to keep him up at night -- the growing perception that Solaris x86 is anti-Linux -- ...