Low-cost audio-recording, -editing, and -mixing software is nice, but no-cost is even better, as long as you don't give up too much capability in exchange (see “Digital audio breaks the sound barrier, ...

The Free Software Foundation has decided to work on making a fully free version of Android after decades of focusing on PC ...

Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. Software can include operating systems, ...

Teaching little kids to use computers is a great idea, but the thought of exposing innocent minds to the drek that flies across the Internet is enough to make a sane parent think about relocating to ...

Free operating systems based on the Linux operating system kernel invented and published by Linus Torvalds are now a serious alternative to Windows, not least due to the wide range of open source ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video ...

The Free Software Foundation has published initial details about the LibrePhone project. The goal is not to develop a ...

In August 1991, a student at the University of Helsinki posted a request to an Internet discussion group asking for help on a project to build a free computer operating system (OS). Linus Torvalds ...