From IBM to HP to Sun and beyond, companies head to LinuxWorld looking for an edge over competitors in the open-source world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Big Blue is on a mission to convince others that the operating system is worthy of real-world use, though it acknowledges that its own interests are a motivation. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Linux distros have been slowly adopting Wayland, a new display server standard that aims to address the problems of X11. As more distros make Wayland the default option, X11 is starting to fade out.

Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries of HDMI licensing and open source AMD driver development combined to prevent the upcoming Steam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI ...

Linux PC maker Star Labs is taking pre-orders for a new thin, light, and powerful laptop called the StarFighter. Not only does it ship with your choice of Linux distributions pre-installed, but it’s ...

The good news is that the Linux team quickly rolled out version 5.19.3, which seems to resolve the problem. Users can also downgrade their Linux release to 5.19.11 to prevent the flickering. The bug ...

How to try out over 85 Linux distros, no installation required - with DistroSea ...

Author and project developer Hayden Barnes has built Azure Linux Desktop as an experimental Windows app that boots a full ...

A well-known gap in AMD's GPU drive support on Linux was the absence of HDMI 2.1 and Display Stream Compression (DSC), but fortunately AMD open source software engineer Harry Wentland and the team ...