People may joke about “the year of the Linux desktop” always being some five years into the future. But for a whole clutch of PC vendors who sell Linux as a standard preloaded OS on their systems, ...

Microsoft announced today that it has added support for the Intel-backed Clear Linux distribution in instances for its Azure public cloud platform. It’s the latest in a lengthy string of Linux ...

Linux may be better than Windows in many ways, but file management isn't one of them. And it's all thanks to third-party developers.

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In August 2015, IBM announced LinuxONE (www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47474.wss), anchored by two new Linux mainframe servers that capitalize on best-of ...

Looking for a Linux distribution to challenge you? AerynOS delivers that - plus atomic-powered security and stability.

HP has dropped Linux as an operating-system option for its latest netbooks in the UK market. An HP spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Thursday that it will not offer the Linux version of the new HP Mini ...

Budgeting apps come in all sizes and shapes. Budget apps for Linux are part of a software category that has been all but abandoned. But take heart. Several Web-based solutions will more than meet your ...

In my recent exploration of Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3, I was impressed by its efficient RAM usage — just 115MB upon booting. This sparked my curiosity about the RAM consumption of various Linux ...

EndeavourOS is a rolling release Arch Linux-based distribution with some handy new features that improve the user experience. EndeavourOS first appeared last summer. This latest version, the third ...

Lenovo has this week announced that it’s starting to offer Linux as an operating system option on all its ThinkStation desktop and ThinkPad P Series laptops, making available a choice of Ubuntu LTS, ...