There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

I'm looking for a fairly small distribution to run from a flash-disk for a PC/104 board. The current distro being used is LinuxMZ, which is terribly annoying. It lacks gcc, the kernel doesn't support ...

Tired of Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch churn, I switched to Linux Mint for calmer updates, better defaults, and a desktop that ...

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.

Also in today’s open source roundup: A roundup of the smallest Linux distributions, and have we hit peak screen size for smartphones? Linux has much to offer any computer user, but we’re all human and ...

The best Linux gaming distribution? Linux has much to offer gamers these days, but the sheer range of distribution choices can also be confusing. A writer at Softpedia recently shared some of his ...

I've done some reading about immutable Linux distros and, well, I guess I don't get what all the fuss is about. The idea seems to be to 'harden' a system by making it hard to modify, but. . . Isn't ...