An industry group releases the first version of a standard designed to make it easier to write Linux software by guaranteeing that different versions of it work similarly. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

A number of software makers and well-known IT vendors have agreed to endorse the Free Standards Group's latest Linux standard to help create common ground for companies building open-source ...

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We know who runs Windows, we know who runs the Mac. We know whose throat to choke when our PCs go ker-flooey. (Picture from Skeptico.) Whatever does that mean? I think it means, is Ubuntu now a ...

The latest Linux Standard Base specifications have been released, allowing open-source vendors and developers to maintain easy portability and compatibility among software applications for Linux. In ...

The nonprofit open-standards advocacy body has released the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, a spec that's intended to ensure that disparate distributions of the open-source OS are interoperable. Most ...

The pre-built Linux Kubuntu Focus Iridium laptop line is an unexpectedly good alternative to running any Linux operating system on converted Windows PCs. Born almost five years ago, Focus Computers ...