The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in December and will be much more stable on arrival than its predecessor, according to the programmer in charge of the software. The current test ...

A few years back, I picked up a cheap 64GB flash drive while I was running some errands, flashed a live version of Linux Mint ...

Adobe stopped supporting the NPAPI version of Flash on Linux back in 2012, and now only updates it with security fixes—and even those will end on May 4, 2017, five years from the release date of ...

Linux gains (or loses), Windows ... Tom's Hardware suggests "Unknown" is likely "very new or very old versions of popular OSes," which ... If you switch to a US-only view, Linux did not hit 3 ...

Hard on the heels of Canonical’s decision last month to halve the support life for non-LTS releases of Ubuntu Linux, the company late last week announced that three versions of its popular Linux ...

In today's open source roundup: What made Microsoft use Linux? Plus: Why we'll never see the year of the Linux desktop. And a botnet takes control of some Linux computers.

Traditionally, Ubuntu releases have included only the most recent stable version of the Linux kernel, with a kernel freeze milestone set two months before each new OS upgrade.