Linux benefits from the strongly-principled ethos of Unix design. Programs communicate via text, you can combine them via pipelines, and they do one thing well. Beyond that, though, programs can act ...

An official version of the popular 7-zip archiving program has been released for Linux for the first time. Linux already had support for the 7-zip archive file format through a POSIX port called p7zip ...

Nearly every Linux user seems to remember their first encounter with the OS. I decided to try booting up the first distro I ever tried, Knoppix, to see how well it held up since I first tried it over ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...