Secure Boot plays an important role in keeping your Windows system safe from rootkit attacks. While traditionally, this ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

The search giant is sponsoring work to help Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, other software run on Linux via the Wine software layer. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

A Linux home office server does not make you more creative. It removes the small, constant frictions that quietly drain you.

The company is continuing its effort to integrate Linux interfaces into its Solaris OS, a move that would make it easier to bring programs based on Linux to Solaris machines. Stephen Shankland worked ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

If you work in IT, or increasingly even just use a computer at work, you're inevitably going to use a program or system based on Linux. The Complete 2022 Linux Certification Training Bundle tutors you ...

The fear of failure factor is one reason why potential newcomers to the Linux operating system never complete the switch. After all, when was the last time you saw a sign in a big-box computer store ...

Why won’t Linux install on modern Lenovo laptops? The discovery of this problem set off a recent firestorm. But contrary to initial speculation, it’s not that Microsoft is forcing Lenovo to block the ...

Ever since Microsoft announced that PowerShell would be made open source, I have been really curious about what it would be like to run PowerShell on a Linux machine. Would it be like managing a ...

Today’s IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP. Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled ...