If you are sitting in front of a Linux system, you can always pop open a browser and query topics of interest on Wikipedia. On the other hand, if you’re logged on through a terminal emulator like ...

The fork occupies an ambivalent place in the world of open source. On the one hand, it is widely perceived as the worst thing that can happen to a project, pitting hacker against hacker, and ...

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is often referred to as an "open-source" project because it is written, edited and policed by a global group of volunteers. However, the open-source label doesn't ...

The above video may or may not be an accurate depiction of the early days of Linux. In Helsinki in 1991, a college student named Linus Torvalds was working on what was “initially a terminal emulator, ...