Update: After publishing this column, I received reader feedback that caused me to review the data I’d used before. See my follow-up post for more details. Valve’s considerable efforts on behalf of ...

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

Linux users are slowly earning a bigger slice of the pie on Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey. Linux users are slowly earning a bigger slice of the pie on Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey. is a ...

Platforms According to Steam, the average PC Gamer writer played 72 games this year (56% of which were new) and used a controller more than we'd like to admit Gaming Industry Analyst firm says the ...

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Linux also seemed to gain a foothold in the PDA world, as 5% of corporations said they were standardizing on Linux-based handheld computing devices. Windows CE/PocketPC and Palm were the most popular ...

The past two years have already seen significant jumps in corporate Linux usage, but now it looks like that trend is continuing into a third year. To wit: While overall server revenue grew at just 3.1 ...

The collection of user data has become a contentious issue for people worldwide. Fortunately, Canonical has shown how it can be done right.

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

The printf command offers well-defined behavior following the POSIX standard, which means it works the same way across shells ...