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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.

Steam client finally available to all Linux users (with a game sale!)

No longer will anyone be able to say "there's just no market for gaming on Linux." After years of patient waiting and an endless stream of rumors, anyone can now have Steam on…

Non-profit switches to Linux distribution designed for students

Chances are you know about the digital divide, but not about the Kramden Institute's work to help hardworking students in grades 3 - 12 who don't have a computer in their home…

Will 2013 finally be the year of Linux gaming?

There has been some debate and consideration in recent years about when the Linux gaming platform will officially gain ground. Critics and market skeptics have wondered when…

Two different paths to different outcomes

The impact of open source on business and social good

I vividly remember the time when my early opinions about open source software were built around questions that made natural (and perfect) sense to me at that point in my life…

Outline of a plane in the sky with clouds

Could open source build a jetliner?

I know this might sound like an odd question. It first came up in a conversation I had with Gary Hamel, the eminent business thinker and one of the first people to recognize…

2012: What a year for Linux

Global research and advisory firm, Forrester, said, "The explosion in open source projects in the HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery, PhoneGap…

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