Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.

Linux is a beautiful thing. From a completely open-source base, we have probably ten quintillion different distros that treat ...

Every year, The Linux Foundation compiles an analysis of who actually contributes the most to Linux's code (PDF Link). In the last year, 2011, besides the usual suspects, which includes Red Hat, Intel ...

Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Here’s an irony for you: the Linux kernel is now written, ...

If I tell you to think of an open-source project, the first word that probably comes to mind is Linux. Then, if I ask you what open-source actually means, you'd probably say something like: "Open ...

It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers. Today, 100 new ones join each second. And running deep within the silicon souls of most of these machines is the work of a technical ...

It’s all too common to hear Linux portrayed by detractors as an operating system suitable only for longtime hackers and “hobbyists,” as it was put in one recent example. The reality, however, is very ...

In 2003, Louis Gerstner published “Who says elephants cannot dance?” The book described his role in transforming IBM IBM from the brink of bankruptcy. He explained the title of his book by saying, ...

Most Linux kernel code isn’t developed by who you might think. Here’s a closer look at why this matters. If you think that Linux is still the “rebel code”—the antiestablishment, software-just-wants-to ...

There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them ...