GeForce NOW is bringing its platform to more PC’s with the beta launch of the app to Linux coming this week.

Hoping to focus the attention of Linux developers, Linux leader Linus Torvalds releases a preliminary version of the next kernel of the open-source operating system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Network World’s product testing gurus recently tested several products that could help users interested in deploying open source technology in a number of ways. Our recent test of the Linux-based ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Since my reawakening to the Macintosh platform, I have primarily been using an Apple PowerBook running OS X, and I’ve been really happy with it. But the CTO in me doesn’t like the fact that using OS X ...

Anshul Jain is assistant manager of test engineering at Tejas Networks. Based in Bangalore, India, Tejas Networks develops and manufactures optical networking switches. Jain is responsible for all ...

Valve's Gabe Newell isn't much of a fan of Windows. A few months ago he went so far to call Windows 8 a "catastrophe", so it's no surprise his company will be the first major company to support gaming ...

Even though it's still a test kernel, calling it "2.6" is a signal for programmers to get down to work testing and stamping out bugs rather than experimenting with new ideas, Torvalds said in a ...

The faster version 2.0 of the Universal Serial Bus connection technology, the center of some controversy with Windows, has been incorporated into the latest test version of Linux. Linus Torvalds, ...