A production version of the free GNU operating system is likely to be available by year’s end, said the president of Boston-based Free Software Foundation Inc. (FSF) in an interview. “We actually have ...

After nearly two years of development, Debian 8 “Jessie” is ready for download. It’s an open source GNU/Linux operating system designed for use on a wide range of hardware and developed by thousands ...

One of the strengths of the Linux ecosystem is freedom of choice. The Debian distribution has given its users one more freedom: to choose between the Linux and FreeBSD kernels under the hood, with the ...

The Free Software Foundation has released Happy Birthday to GNU to celebrate the silver anniversary of the operating system. The film, presented by actor/comedian Stephen Fry, offers a basic history ...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system, and a number of its users are coming together around the world to celebrate the milestone. GNU is maintained and supported by the FSF, ...

Fedora is a free and open source operating system developed by a community of coders, but backed by the folks who make the commercial Red Hat Linux project. Fedora 22 is now available for download.

SCO's contract dispute with IBM has been accompanied by a smear campaign against the whole GNU/Linux system. But SCO made an obvious mistake when it erroneously quoted me as saying that "Linux is a ...