If you hear the term "open-source," you might think of Linux. However, Linux distros aren't the only open-source operating systems. There are plenty in use today besides Linux. Some date back to even ...

Your PC has more options than the usual household names.

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital ...

Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

Dell is supporting SONiC across its PowerSwitch family of networking switches and across the portfolio, including Nvidia’s ...

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.

For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track ...

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...