News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Bodhi Linux can make an old computer feel brand new If you're looking for a different take on the desktop, Bodhi Linux is an option that will have you enjoying your computer again.

As far as I know, the Mac mini is the first Unix computer from a major manufacturer (if Apple can be called that) to be this small and cheap. This is a full multi-user operating system and ...

MX Linux is an appealing midweight Linux operating system. The midweight category is a bit unusual. Desktop environments that run well on minimal hardware typically fall into the lightweight category.

Red Hat will kick off its new fiscal year in ASEAN with an eye on Unix -to-Linux migrations in emerging markets. In an exclusive interview with Computer Weekly, Damien Wong, Red Hat’s vice ...

On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13 ...

That's when Unix computer clocks will reach the time of 1234567890--1.2 billion seconds elapsed from January 1, 1970, the official beginning of the Unix epoch.

US computer scientist Dennis Ritchie - one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating system and the C programming language - has died at 70 after a long illness.

Computer sleuths interested in running forensic PC operations on a Linux machines should take a look at an open source tool called Foremost.

Brian Benchoff is an embedded engineer who has graced us with unique, whimsical devices like the RGB Gaming Coaster. Now he's designed a $15 Linux PC. (Yes, it runs DOOM) ...