There's more to open source than desktop Linux ...

There’s a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is ...

Your PC has more options than the usual household names.

Age verification laws are moving beyond porn sites and social media. Soon, your operating system could be required to check ...

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital ...

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...

Remember all the ruckus with various US states introducing operating-system level age verification laws? Colorado and California thankfully exempt open source.

As the Japanese government prepares to introduce more electronic government projects next year, it has begun studying open-source operating systems in a move that could lead to the replacement of some ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.