In today's open source roundup: Debian 8 Jesse has been released. Plus: Did open source principles matter when Linux was created? And can you play games on a Chromebox computer? Many Linux users have ...

The wait is over. Debian 8.0—“Jessie”—will be released on April 25, after a nearly two-year development cycle for the next release of this long-standing Linux distribution. Microsoft is even throwing ...

On Saturday, the Debian project released two new updates for Debian 9 and Debian 8, bumping them up to 9.1 and 8.9 respectively. The updates aren’t too significant but they do come with patched ...

The latest point-release update of Debian GNU/Linux (8.3) came out last week, so I decided to take this opportunity to review what distribution media are available, and how/where they can/can't be ...

After nearly two years of development, Debian 8 “Jessie” is ready for download. It’s an open source GNU/Linux operating system designed for use on a wide range of hardware and developed by thousands ...

Debian, which dates back to 1993 and the efforts of Ian Murdock, is now up to date. Nowhere does that show more than with its controversial move to the systemd system and service manager. While ...

I spend a significant portion of my life installing and testing distributions of Linux-based systems. It’s really rather ridiculous. Even obscure ones—ones that never stand a chance of being listed on ...

The Debian project, the upstream mother of countless Linux distributions, has released Debian 10, also known as "Buster." And yes, that's a reference to the character from Toy Story. All Debian ...

The Debian Project has launched the eighth update of its stable distribution Debian 8, codename Jessie. The update adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few ...