Pear OS has had a bit of history. It started out as a Debian-based Linux distribution called Pear OS. Then, out of nowhere, it was renamed Comice OS. The rename gremlins struck again, and it was back ...

Ubuntu MATE uses the MATE desktop (which is lightweight yet full-featured), which makes it easy for new users to hop onto the Linux bandwagon. MATE is as easy as it gets, with a bottom panel, a top ...

The Tiny Core Project offers up the tiniest of Linux distros, shipping three variants on which you can build your own environments. The lightest edition is Core, weighing in at just 17MB, which comes ...

It seems the open source community is better at keeping old open-source Linux OpenGL drivers properly maintained. According to Phoronix, the GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance demon Nvidia are ...

A bus standard introduced by HP in 1972 has finally gained stable Linux driver support, more than fifty years after its initial release. HP created the interface to link laboratory instruments with ...

Linux is 22 Years Old! Linux recently turned twenty two recently. Wow! How time flies! Can you believe it’s been that long already? It seems like just yesterday that Linus created it as a “hobby.” ...

Also in today's open source roundup: 8 Linux file managers to try, and Pokemon GO has lost millions of players Apple is known for its planned obsolescence strategy that encourages customers to upgrade ...

You want to know the funniest thing is about compared Corel Linux 1.0, released in 1999, with a typical modern desktop Linux — say, Ubuntu 9.10? How much hasn’t changed. It’s sort of like comparing ...

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.