News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Companies like Valve have demonstrated that strategic vision and thoughtful integration can make Linux viable for large ...

The B00merang Project Windows XP-inspired theme collection not only recreates the classic look of Windows XP, but also adds ...

Welcome to the exciting world of overclocking, a realm where the limits of computer hardware are pushed for greater performance. Particularly in the context of Linux, a versatile and powerful ...

Whether you're on a Windows, macOS, or Linux system, here's how to find out your motherboard spec—with or without opening up the computer.

ShaRPiKeebo is a new tiny Linux computer complete with a daylight readable screen, keyboard and long-range transceiver. Measuring just 6 x 11 x 1.5 cm and ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard ...

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

Two Operating Systems, One PC Is it possible to install Ubuntu Linux on my Windows XP computer so I can have both systems on one machine — without having to reinstall Windows?