Windows 11 slowed my hardware to a crawl. Linux runs lighter with rolling updates, and keeps older PCs fast for years instead ...

One of the most subtle improvements was disk activity. Under Windows, the drive was constantly busy indexing, scanning, ...

One of the good things about Linux is that it supports so much old hardware. With just a bit of work, there's almost no computing hardware that can't run Linux. That's the good news. The bad news is ...

One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.

My recent column about discarding rather than upgrading a 5-year-old Windows PC brought a protest from some fans of Linux, the alternative PC operating system. They argue that it's better to keep an ...

A vulnerability in the wall command of the util-linux package that is part of the Linux operating system could allow an unprivileged attacker to steal passwords or change the victim's clipboard.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, i need to run old Red Hat Linux distros. Anything above 5 and below 9 is fine. Anyone has any idea where i can get them besides Planet Mirror since they seem to ...

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.