As Linux has improved its gaming support in the last few years, I have wondered how the gap is closing between the experience of using Windows for gaming as opposed to Linux. If we use Windows as a ...

I am abandoning windows as entirely as is possible. I have extensive experience with dos and so I will be going back to that os.<P>However, linux has been around for a long while, and there are ...

In 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds got annoyed. He had bought a personal computer to use at home, but he couldn’t find an operating system for it that was as ...

Hey folks, I've got some news here to start off your week. I'm still a little fuzzy from last night's Red Sox vs Yankees game, so I'll let you enjoy the news while I get some coffee and continue ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In whats certainly a different twist in operating-system ...

The story of Linux on non-x86 architectures started in 1994 with a port to the now-abandoned Alpha architecture. Other ports quickly followed, and over the years, Linux has gained support for most ...

It appears that a portion of Microsoft’s Windows 7 training materials have been released into the wild by a Best Buy employee. Why is this news? Well, a section of the training compared Windows 7 to ...

If you’re new to the world of Linux and trying to figure out which distribution is right for your needs, this chart can help. It lists 10 key attributes for 20 popular distributions to help you zero ...

Look, nobody's saying Linux is perfect for every consumer (or even most), but Microsoft's "training material" for Best Buy employees casts the open source operating system in a bit of a bad light -- ...