Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who ...

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Novell ships Suse Linux Enterprise 10 server and desktop under the GNU General Public License, which prohibits Linux distributors from shipping the open-source operating system with proprietary ...

Migrating eCommerce to Linux isn’t new; Amazon did it in 2001. At the time they saved $500 on software for each server, but the real driver was that they could use commodity X86 boxes rather than ...

Franklin has been covering tech and cybersecurity for over 5 years. His work has appeared on TechRepublic, The Register, TechInformed, Computing, ServerWatch, and Moonlock, among others. Linux is an ...

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, possibly the most popular of all Linux distributions, is asking its users what new, proprietary programs they’d like to see as optional software in Ubuntu. Note, ...

Linux Mint 22.1, codenamed “Xia,” is finally available, offering three desktop environments -- Cinnamon, Xfce, and MATE. This long-term support release will receive updates through 2029. Cinnamon is ...

Linux audio failures in 2026 trace back to proprietary firmware, vendor neglect, and codec patents, not the desktop itself, ...