But You're A Noob! As someone relatively new to Linux land, I may not seem like the ideal candidate to critically evaluate a Linux desktop OS installer. Then again ...

Welcome to an ongoing series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm checking out a distribution my ...

While it sounds simple, it was generally time-consuming, tracking down Linux drivers for all the hardware, downloading hacks and patches to fix BIOS issues, and testing the system to make sure it was ...

As much as I extol the variety that Linux offers, I’ve done a bad job of enjoying it. Sadly, playing with new distributions usually gets bested by competing priorities. Not today. A browse through ...

Fans of Linux flocked to the LinuxWorld Conference to promote their products and deliver the message that the open-source operating system has finally earned its wings. Steven Musil is the night news ...

A lot of that stuff will probably be worked out in the next year or so. At one time, daily use of any Linux distro looked like that. Getting anything going, ever, was a constant struggle. Once you had ...

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I'm not sure reviews via VM are acceptable. Too much relies on the lies of the VM and can't truly capture a real out of box experience. It's the same virtual hardware configuration I use for ...

After years of reviewing Linux distributions, eventually, so much of it just blends together. And the truth of the matter, sometimes it just boils down to what a particular distribution does with the ...

Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions to fax service reviews. At PCMag, much of my work focused on security and privacy services, as well as a video game or ...

The world of Linux operating systems can fill a new user with high expectations only to be met with glaring disappointment in a later reunion. That describes my experience with a Linux distro not well ...

Collax has made it no secret that it intends to battle Microsoft for the small business server market and is aggressively seeking soldiers in the form of solution providers. And with the recall and ...