If you need an operating system that is blazing fast, and you have a spare PC lying around, give one of these speedsters a try.

I've used or tested just about every Linux distribution available, and this one is my go-to, hands down. Here's why.

Porteus is a portable distro designed and optimized to run from removable media such as a USB flash drive, SD card or even ...

Better yet, modern hypervisors can run most of the popular operating systems inside VMs – including FreeBSD distros and even Hackintosh setups. However, my home lab primarily utilizes Linux-based ...

It seems to have spotted all the hardware, and functions impressively — for an old Windows user, this Linux distro may well be the best one yet. I’ll be testing it on other hardware, and I’ll get back ...

“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 ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

The 12-year-old flaw in the sudo-like Polkit’s pkexec tool, found in all major Linux distributions, is likely to be exploited in the wild within days. Every major Linux distribution has an easily ...

The IPv6 Workgroup of the Linux Foundation has announced that all major Linux distributions are now in compliance with Department of Defense certification policies, several months after the DoD began ...