There are approximately 600 actively maintained flavors of Linux available. Making the right choice for what you need on your PC is a daunting task. Heading to DistroWatch and randomly picking out a ...

If you work remote or run your own business out of your house, consider my picks for the best Linux desktop OS.

I often get asked why Ubuntu-based distributions have been my go-to for years. Here's what keeps me coming back.

Several Linux-based OSes for netbooks are available today, including Canonical’s Ubuntu Netbook Remix, GoodOS’s gOS 3.1 Gadgets, and Moblin 2.0 beta, which is backed by Intel.

Linux has been innovative from its inception, however, in important ways. First, while the commercial Unix flavors ran on high-end systems based on RISC processors, Torvalds designed his OS for ...

Linux can replace Windows, but not everywhere. Switching is ideal and even improves security if you don’t need to run current or future software like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ...

In my recent exploration of Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3, I was impressed by its efficient RAM usage — just 115MB upon booting. This sparked my curiosity about the RAM consumption of various ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) enables the start of a Linux system and the use of Linux applications under Windows. Performance can also be improved with a new kernel.

Running a Linux virtual machine on Mac can be resource-exhaustive, but Apple just made it much better in macOS 26 with native support for running Linux containers without the need for third-party ...