SAN DIEGO--End users and Linux can be like men and marriage--they like the idea, but commitment is a bear. An Austin, Texas-based software maker hopes to make it easier with products that allow ...

MandrakeSoft issues a plea for its customers to buy more of its products, club memberships or stock to help the Linux seller move into the black. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

System76 has been selling Linux laptop and desktop computers for years. But for most of that time the company has been buying OEM designs and slapping its own software on top. Recently System76 ...

Linux has come a very long way. Not only is the kernel far more sophisticated and capable than during the 1990s, but the GUIs make everything so easy that working with the operating system is almost ...

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