Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open-source Linux kernel, was once mauled by a very small penguin while on a trip in Australia. The experience had a lasting impact on him and later inspired him to ...

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A fur-ightening case of a cat lost after a Lyft ride has been closed. Social media users were captivated after a desperate appeal to the people of Austin, Texas, over the weekend. According to a ...

As a homeschooling family, my wife and I are very involved in our children's education and since we're both a couple of nerds, much of our children's education is done on the computer. I use Linux for ...

Boarding pup highlight: Tux Edition is a 2- or 3-year-old Pit Bull. Some days you just really need to play. Tux has the best facial expressions. He is full of love and full of energy. He loves playing ...

Free and open source racing game SuperTuxKart has been under development for nearly 12 years, and even longer than that if you take into account that it was a fork of the discontinued TuxKart. And for ...

Team Fortress 2 is now available to players using Linux, according to the official Team Fortress 2 site. Those who play it on Linux will receive a limited edition penguin. There's a very good reason ...

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado ” Want to look like James Bond out for a night at the Baccarat tables in Monaco at your next Vail Valley soiree? Talk to Vito Parrish. Parrish runs the Vail Tux Shop in ...

Back in the late 1920s, sportswriter George Springer of The Springfield Republican loved to pin nicknames on some of the high school athletes he covered. Perhaps the most colorful of them all – "The ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Humane Society of Southwest Missouri has two Bernedoodles (Bernese Mountain Dog/Poodle) up for adoption. One of those, Tux, visited the KOLR10 studio Friday. He is four to five ...