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Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system. As an operating system, Linux is software that sits underneath all of the other software on a computer, receiving requests from those programs and relaying these requests to the computer’s hardware. Learn more on our what is Linux resource page.

The problem with Linux text-to-speech (TTS)

Ken Starks is the executive director of Reglue (Recycled Electronics and GNU/Linux Used for Education), which accepts broken or decommissioned computers to refurbish and place…

Be an inspiration, not an impostor

Major Hayden is a man of considerable skill. In addition to his job at Rackspace, he spends time developing open source projects, maintaining packages for Fedora, and making…

8 accessible Linux distributions to try

One of the most common questions I'm asked by a disabled prospective Linux user is, "There are so many different Linux distributions. Which one is for me? Which one is most…

How an open-minded sysadmin got me hooked on Linux

Around 1994, I was a database and security consultant in London. Working in the financial sector around Threadneedle Street. In those days, the only choices for home operating…

18 reasons to use Gnome on its 18th birthday

Today the Gnome desktop turns 18. To celebrate, we created a list of reasons to use it: De-facto desktop environment: A lot of Linux distributions have their own Gnome…

Top 5 articles of the week on Opensource.com

Top 5: LibreOffice, Dolphin, Docker, Linux and more

In this week's Top 5, our readers loved stories about LibreOffice 5, Priyanka Nag's My Linux Story, a tutorial for the KDE file manager Dolphin, patent trolls, and our…

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