Linux

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 power of Docker and open source ecosystems

Reading through the latest list of top 10 open source projects on Opensource.com has been a reminder of what a great year 2014 has been for open source. Established projects…

The building blocks of a distribution with Linux from Scratch

There is a very, very large number of Linux distributions. Each distribution is built using the same basic building blocks but the end results are always different. The…

Open source schools: More soup, less nuts

Charlie Reisinger, IT Director at Penn Manor High School in Lancaster Pennsylvania delivers a talk on how we can empower students at all public schools with the elements of…

Banana Pi, Spiderman arm, and World of USO

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at 3D printing for NASA, the Banana Pi, adventures with the R language, and more! Open source news for…

Install Linux on a used laptop

Now that Windows XP has been officially discontinued there are a huge number of Windows XP laptops for sale on eBay. Many of these run really well with a light Linux distro…

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