It's billed as academia's fastest supercomputer: an IBM machine using Intel's Itanium processor running a Linux application that can process 2 trillion calculations per second. Wanna know how ...

The SCO Group, arguably, isn’t making many friends in the Linux camp these days. Last month it filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly misusing Unix code to bolster Linux efforts.

Plus, Linux is now finding its way onto televisions, thermostats, and even cars. As software creeps into practically every aspect of our lives, so does the OS designed by Linus Torvalds.