Microsoft's second Windows Server 2016 test build, No. 16257, supports the Windows Subsystem for Linux plus several Linux distributions. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Aug. 8 ...

I’ve never tried installing Linux directly as I figured it would be more of a hassle than it’s worth. Plus, VirtualBox works so well and it lets me distrohop with ease and comfort.

Microsoft's Get the Facts site, which I discussed in my LinuxInsider column last week, "Getting the Facts About Windows and Linux," makes the case that Windows is cheaper than Linux. The site includes ...

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.

Plus, this way, consumers will only see the friendly and usable face of pre-installed, pre-configured Linux and not the freaky underbelly that scares so many people off (including yours truly).

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 ...