Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Oh, and since it's sold as a barebones kit, there's no need to pay ...

Microsoft ran the benchmark tests in response to what it believes were IBM’s unsubstantiated claims about the benefits of running Linux on its mainframe hardware, according to Microsoft General ...

Staunch Linux advocates have been saying for some time that the Unix derivative's application performance outstrips that of Windows, assuming all other factors are equal. Valve even proved it back in ...

Due to popular demand, we're looking into AMD's Threadripper 2990WX performance using Linux. Apparently this is something we should have done since day one, according to many AMD fans, although of ...

We love to watch a good dogfight, especially when the two opponents can be considered rivals. You know, Celtics versus Lakers (go Celtics!), Red Sox versus Yankees (go Red Sox!), and so forth. In the ...

Intel has ditched a controversial licensing agreement that appeared aimed at legally preventing developers from publishing benchmark results that could reveal performance slowdowns caused by its ...

Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software ...

I am doing some tests to determine read/write speeds and they both seem somewhat low to me. This thread contains real -world numbers of an inexpensive and relatively ...

Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released file and Web serving benchmark results that, it claims, show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind ...

Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft Corp. yesterday released file- and Web-serving benchmark results that it claims show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind ...

Stepping up its campaign against the Linux operating system, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released file and Web serving benchmark results that, it claims, show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind ...