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

Documentation master Christian Brauner got fed up in 2024, stating "years of writing Groff have made me tired," and he ...

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

To install Linux Mint on your VMware Workstation, begin by creating a new virtual machine within the software, selecting your ...

The Year of the Linux Desktop has become something of a sad meme in recent years, but the truth is that Linux as an alternative to Windows and macOS has never been more popular — both in terms of ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

Today, the first business model that comes to mind for Linux or open-source software is to offer paid business support. It wasn't always that way. In Linux's early days, companies such as Caldera, Red ...

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, ...

So you’re switching from Windows to Linux? Great. Like other users and organizations who’ve taken the plunge, it’s likely you’re making the move to take advantage of Linux’s stability and reliance on ...

Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...