We list the best lightweight Linux distros, 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 ...

Meta has warned about a dangerous vulnerability in FreeType, a widely used font-rendering library that many applications depend on.

If you're looking for a new Linux distribution, maybe it's time you tried a rolling release distribution. Here are my top five options.

Ready to ditch Windows? It's time to migrate to Linux, but not all distros are made for developers. Give Linux Mint a go!

As huge fans of Mr Robot, we had to ask whether Offensive Security was involved in the depictions of Kali in the show.

The Arch Linux Tweak Tool (ATT) is a powerful application that was designed for customizing ArcoLinux but eventually expanded to other Arch-based distributions, including vanilla Arch Linux ...

Ubuntu has long-term support and cutting-edge editions, Zorin has Core and Pro builds, and openSUSE has Tumbleweed and Leap.

A critical FreeType vulnerability (CVE-2025-27363) with a CVSS 8.1 score may be actively exploited—update to 2.13.3 now for ...

But how do you actually remove a Linux distro installed in WSL? On the face of things, you might think you just have to uninstall the "app" for the particular distro you installed, but that's only ...

Linux Format talks to Gerald Combs and Loris Degioanni, about creating Wireshark, the origins of network packet analysis, and ...