Why it’s great: Ubuntu is one of the most recognizable Linux distributions, and for good reason. It offers a polished ...

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Pear OS has had a bit of history. It started out as a Debian-based Linux distribution called Pear OS. Then, out of nowhere, it was renamed Comice OS. The rename gremlins struck again, and it was back ...

I remember back in the day when Linux was a challenge, even for computer scientists. It was all text-based; you had to manually format the hard drive, understand how networking functioned, and use the ...

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 ...

Talking to PC gamers about Linux is always entertaining, because everyone who knows even a little bit about Linux has a different impression. For some it's that other operating system they've vaguely ...

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Android developer Danny Lin (also known as kdrag0n), has introduced a new app called Nestbox that makes it easy to run Linux virtual machines on Google’s latest Pixel phones. In a nutshell, this lets ...

“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” The question seemingly has no real answer, and biologists can argue either reply ad nauseam. The computer world has an equally pervasive question that ...