By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.

So you’re switching from Windows to Linux? Great. Like other users and organizations who’ve taken the plunge, it’s likely you’re making the move to take advantage of Linux’s stability and reliance on ...

Windows might be your bread and butter, but you can dual-boot it with Linux if you want to tinker, or play around with a wider range of open source software. Whether you're using Windows 10 or Windows ...

Is there a better/another file system that both Windows and Linux can read, other than FAT32/16?<br><br>My laptop gets used only for taking notes and web stuff (and the occasional game of Gnometris), ...

Linux in the data center now must compete not only with Windows and Unix, but now it's got to be able to work with public and private clouds, on-premise and off-premise virtual solutions. And it's got ...

Linux is not the same as Windows. The operating system is operated and configured differently than Windows and Windows programs cannot be started directly. With the help of virtualization or Wine, ...

The point isn’t to replace Windows with Linux; getting the best from both worlds is a real productivity and efficiency hack. Adopting the same mindset that has kept servers running for years will keep ...

Unless you're using Linux on a virtual machine, installing the open-source OS is usually done via a USB drive. Because of this, you can burn an ISO to a USB drive, reboot the system, boot into the USB ...

Data loss is a nightmare for any computer user, and Linux users are no exception. Despite the robust architecture of Linux operating systems, disasters can strike in the form of accidental deletions, ...

Computer Associates International on Monday plans to widen the field for open source alternatives to commercial databases with the general release of the Ingres r3 database on the Linux and Windows ...

Asrock has released BIOS version 4.10 for the DeskMini X600, with which Linux no longer corrupts data when writing to NVMe SSDs. This happened in some configurations with earlier BIOS versions of the ...