You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

The year ahead has a lot in store for Linux users. Many of the trends, hardware products, and software developments below comprise a colorful mix that focuses on the use of Linux in particular. We ...

Nearly every month, there are more reports of federal, state, and local governments in the United States running Linux on new applications. Based on the anecdotal evidence, Linux is everywhere. But ...

Any time we mention Linux, it is a fair bet we will get a few comments from people unhappy that we didn’t refer to it as GNU/Linux or with some other appellation. To be fair, they aren’t wrong. Linux ...

Is Linux ready for the corporate desktop? Join Computerworld‘s online discussion and share your views. With the proven success of Linux-based servers for mission-critical business applications, many ...

The Tiny Core Project offers up the tiniest of Linux distros, shipping three variants on which you can build your own environments. The lightest edition is Core, weighing in at just 17MB, which comes ...

There’s a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it’s a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it’s the first open source OS that complies ...