BOSTON--A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copyright protection technologies. But the Free Software Foundation ...

A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copy-restriction technologies. But the Free Software Foundation Europe ...

My fellow ZDNet blogger, David Berlind, has a great post titled The skinny on desktop Linux pros, cons and adoption where he does a good job of spelling out what is hindering Linux as a widely ...

A number of you have written in to point out that Linux founder Linus Torvalds has publicly stated that "DRM is perfectly ok with Linux!" For a long time now, whenever DRM topics would come up in the ...

It's obvious to most Linux users that Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a really bad idea. It's not just because DRM-encoded media usually won't play with our operating system, but rather because we ...

A look at what's new in kernel development. Welcome to the new diff -u! We're experimenting with a shorter, more frequent, single-subject format for this feature, which also may evolve over time. Let ...

Intel's Meteor Lake integrated graphics have been eagerly awaited by Linux operating system fans. After months of development, the latest patchset, drm-intel-gt-next, was submitted to the Linux 6.4 ...

Free operating system Linux is looking to Windows as its role model, at least in this one way: implementing its own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to warn users in cases of a kernel panic. The BSOD—with ...

NVIDIA today released their latest recommended driver version 580.126.09 for Linux but it's quite light on actual changes and ...