KDE developers have announced that you can now test KDE Linux, a completely new Linux distribution currently in a "pre-alpha" phase. It's big news for KDE enthusiasts like myself, as it's meant to be ...

Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers ...

If you’ve gone further into the Linux world than the standard desktop distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora, you have undoubtedly come across some more purpose-built distributions. Some examples are ...

It should be no surprise, then, that there is a distribution specifically targeting the Asian market. Considering how quickly that segment of the market is growing, the high level of interest in ...

Linux vendor Linspire has launched a free distribution of its Linux desktop OS called Freespire 1.0, based on the Debian Linux software distribution. Freespire is similar to the firm's commercial ...

WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the Linux open-source operating system marks its 30 th anniversary, Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) announces the expansion of its Linux distribution by recognizing ...

This is a list of GNU/Linux distributions designed to run on smartphones. While many support phones designed to run a mainline Linux kernel including the PinePhone and Librem 5, there are others that ...

Choosing your next Linux distribution: “just works” or community? Your email has been sent It’s 2022, so of course it’s The Year of the Linux Desktop™. I mean, we’ve been living in that year (or on ...

Linux kernel 3.17—part of the series codenamed “Shuffling Zombie Juror” (yes, really!)—is now out. This means great new features are coming to a Linux distribution near you, though the 3.17 kernel’s ...

Right now, you get most of your Linux software from your distribution’s software repositories. Those applications have to be packaged specifically for your Linux distribution, and you have to trust ...

On August 25, 1991, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced a new project. "I'm doing a (free) operating system," he wrote on an Internet messaging system, insisting this ...