Explore the rise and fall of these groundbreaking Linux systems, and how their legacies live on.

The bash shell's history command in Linux makes it easy to review and reuse commands, but there's a lot you do to control how much it remembers and how much forgets. The bash history command on Linux ...

Linux shells like bash have a convenient way of remembering commands that you type, making it easy to run them again without having to retype them. Just use the history command (which is a bash ...

Whether you use it every day or you've never even heard of it, Linux is undeniably important to computing history. It's been around in one form or another since the early 90s and continues to be a ...

The evolution of computing has been marked by a series of paradigm shifts, from mainframes to personal computers, and now to the cloud. Currently, the common path to deploying web infrastructure is to ...

The above video may or may not be an accurate depiction of the early days of Linux. In Helsinki in 1991, a college student named Linus Torvalds was working on what was “initially a terminal emulator, ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company ...

Ever wonder where Tux the penguin came from? Jack Wallen offers up a bit of a history lesson. Way back in 2008, I had my arm inked with the Linux mascot. Of course, when I look back at the photos of ...