As free and open source software continues to become more powerful and more prevalent, there’s less and less need to choose anything else. It’s not at all surprising, for example, to see the recent ...

It has been cooking for a while.

Wine allows Windows applications to run natively on other operating systems, including versions of Linux, Unix, and the Mac OS After 15 years of “pain” and “despair,” open-source developers on Tuesday ...

Big Blue employees use Wine to run Lotus Notes, but a company manual refers to it as a 'temporary workaround' IBM’s effort to promote Linux as a viable alternative on the company’s 350,000 corporate ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. It used to be that running Windows programs on a Mac was ...

IBM’s effort to promote Linux as a viable alternative on the company’s 350,000 corporate desktops took a step forward last month, when the company’s IT organization began supporting the open-source ...