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 ...

Kiwix, the desktop application for browsing offline archives of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other resources, just got an ...

A new look app menu, expanded search abilities in the file manager and a modern on-screen keyboard are among new features in Linux Mint 22.3, which just ...

While Microsoft peppers the media with promotions surrounding the release of Windows XP, new versions of three major commercial Linux distributions also hit store shelves this week. The new software ...

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a ...

When you’re talking Linux, three big names always pop up: Canonical’s Ubuntu, Novell’s openSUSE and Red Hat’s Fedora. Ubuntu has ridden a groundswell of both consumer and commercial support to its ...

Linus Torvalds, creator and curator of the Linux kernel, has a quandary on his hands: should he stick to Linux’s long-time tradition of massive, multple-decimal-point version numbers, or should he ...