ZDNET's key takeaways Some Linux distributions require a bit of extra work.Your effort will pay off in big ways.These five ...

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

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.

For the longest time, it was assumed that Linux was only meant for older PCs and various hardware (GPU, sound, networking, etc.). Over the years, Linux developers have caught up and proved that ...

During my two dozen years of writing about open source and reviewing hundreds of Linux distributions, I have developed a keen interest in Linux offerings that break out of the traditional Linux ...

It's a small change to a single software project, but systemd manages services and system settings for the vast majority of the big Linux distributions, including but not limited to Debian, Fedora, ...

I recently ran across 12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux distros on the Austrailian site, goodgearguide.com.au. Zeroshell Linux is not a surprise to most embedded developers that ...

Over the past few years a number of custom Linux distributions for netbooks have popped up. And while some were designed from the ground up by large teams of developers with corporate backing, like ...