SAN FRANCISCO--Widespread use of Linux and open-source software is an inevitability, but the new programming technique is running into troubles with the important new technology of digital rights ...

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...

Most Android vendors have lost their Linux distribution rights and could face shakedown or shutdown, according to a leading patent expert. Florian Mueller said that rampant non-compliance with the ...

Recently, an article crossed my path that made me smile. There’s not much in tech these days that does that, so I took a moment to savor this rare sensation. The piece by Jack Wallen on ZDNet pitched ...

One area that causes confusion is mount points permissions. It makes absolutely no difference what permissions and ownership are set on a mount point before a filesystem is mounted there, as it ...

For those who are looking to replace Windows 10, you might be wondering just how different Windows and Linux are. Beyond the usual concerns for the user interface, there's also security to take into ...

For users who are looking to try something new, or who are tired of their Mac OS or Windows operating systems, now just might be the time to switch to something else. The Mac OS system currently uses ...

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 ...

Linux is a multi-user operating system, even if you are the only person using your computer. The most basic of systems has two users: you and the superuser, which is also called root. Every file or ...