As a Linux Nerd(tm), it’s easy to feel left out of the “gadget lust” fun that our Apple and Microsoft brethren so often get to enjoy. New iPads and iPhones (and iWhatevers), Windows 8 tablets named ...

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Linux nerds are fighting over whether a disastrous bug is actually a security flaw rather than fixing it. A critical unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered, ...

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Linus Torvalds is worth $20-million (R144 million). He has been called one of the most influential people in the world (Time magazine, 2004) and came 17th in Time's Person of the Century poll in 2000.

If you’re gonna pick a fight with a technology cult, for Pete’s sake, don’t go after the Linux nerds. That’s what Tuttle, Okla., city manager Jerry Taylor is finding out after he, let’s say, ...

Linux kernel developer and Novell engineer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, recently lashed out at competitor Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, for not contributing enough to the Linux community.

The three-man Team Geek sealed its victory and secured a trio of the coveted glass Golden Penguin statuettes by besting their rivals from Dell in two rounds of tech trivia, capped with a decisive bout ...

There’s never been any love lost between Microsoft and Linux users. When Microsoft acquired Skype many predicted that Linux would no longer be supported. But Microsoft has just released an update to ...