Welcome to a regular series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm escaping my comfort zone and leaving ...

Longtime Microsoft foe Novell signs an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM will make a $50 million investment in Novell. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. Read now Back in 1992, the idea you could make a business from Linux seemed ...

In my never-ending quest to find the perfect Linux distribution, I'm planning this weekend to overwrite my Garuda Linux installation on my main PC with another alternative operating system I've not ...

GeckoLinux is a unique distribution that goes a long way towards unifying the often-confusing array of workstation choices available to business and mainstream consumers looking for an alternative to ...

At its Build 2017 developer conference last month, Microsoft announced that it is bringing SUSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora to the Windows Store. The surprise move appeared to be the latest byproduct of ...

There are more interesting Linux desktop distributions to choose from than ever before. However, if you’re looking for major distros with a great deal of support, you’ll want to look at the big four: ...

Windows 10 includes an optional feature that lets you install Linux-based operating systems so that you can run Linux utilities alongside Windows applications without rebooting or switching computers.