ZDNET key takeaways The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth.Linux has been making gains in no small part because of ...

ZDNET's key takeaways RAM is a crucial component for a smooth PC experience.Linux doesn't require as much RAM as Windows.More ...

The event will take place in the Systems Lab on the third floor of the Science Building, and there will be free pizza and pop. At the event, an Abstraction tradition since 1995, computer club members ...

Linux For All very well could be a unifying Linux distribution that provides a common computing platform. LFA is a distro developed by Sweden-based software engineer Arne Exton of Exton Linux, the ...

I regularly read the Linux Mint Blog, not only because it is useful to keep up with what is happening with the Linux Mint distribution but also because it occasionally gives very interesting insights ...

One of the stumbling blocks in migrating to the Linux desktop is the mistaken view that you can’t take it with you. Your data must remain captive to the Microsoft operating system. Not true at all. A ...

Last June German PC maker Schenker and Linux PC vendor Tuxedo Computers showed off a prototype of a Linux laptop with a ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spends a lot of time publicly mocking netbooks and Linux. He did it again last week during his meeting with financial analysts. But netbooks and Linux are the very things ...

Linux has long since proven it's possible for one operating system to work for everyone—also that there's an approach to development that opens and frees code so everyone can use it, improve it and ...

Aside from getting up to speed on what it means to run Linux on a mainframe, I learned a few other things, thanks to ZDNet's readers who responded to my column on how SuSE is infusing "Blue" blood (as ...

MORRISVILLE – Lenovo, the worl’s top PC seller, is giving Linux a big boost by certifying all its workstation computers for Red Hat and Ubuntu, two of the most popular open source software solutions. ...