With these operating systems, you can revive an old machine and make it run as though it were new. Here are five Linux distributions that are perfectly at home on older (and even newer ...

Once upon a time, using Linux without the terminal was unthinkable. Now? For average users, the terminal is totally optional.

A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds, as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture in a Linux kernel mailing list post. That an old ...

The Debian update repositories were of course gone, but changing these to the archive version allowed for some (very old) updates. This raised the question of whether modern Linux would even run ...

Purchase a new computer that supports Windows 11. Switch to an Apple device. Switch to Linux. Only one of the above options is free… switch to Linux. For those who've never used Linux ...

to make it simple and easy to run a simpler Linux OS on older x86 machines. This means you shouldn't expect these distros to provide blistering performance, but they can allow you to bring an old ...

If you’re on any older Linux Mint 20.x release, be on the lookout for an upgrade path opening up through the update manager.

Google updated the Linux kernel for older Pixel phones with aging Tensor chips, and user reports are loving the major upgrade ...

Some previous-gen Pixel phones just got a major kernel upgrade with the March 2025 update, bringing them in line with the ...