Linux Mint is my top pick for Windows escapees—stable, familiar, and frequently updated. Cinnamon menu gains moveable search ...

If you prefer your desktop operating system to be prettier than the average bear, then Linux is where it's at.

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Picking the ideal Linux distribution takes research and planning. Not because Linux is a challenge. Rather, the Linux OS offers a seemingly unending selection of distributions to meet general ...

The best Linux gaming distribution? Linux has much to offer gamers these days, but the sheer range of distribution choices can also be confusing. A writer at Softpedia recently shared some of his ...

(I asked this in the 'Linux Kung Fu' section, but got no response)<BR><BR>What Linux distro's best for a blue-and-white Mac G3 350Mhz, which I want to use as an experimental server to get up to speed ...

A friend of mine, who knows Windows well, recently told me that he was going to give Linux a try. On a recommendation of a friend, he was going to start with Sabayon Linux 4.0. Oh dear. It’s not that ...

One of the biggest ongoing challenges for Linux advocates has always been that there is such a paucity of data available to demonstrate the preferences of the people who are actually using the free ...

I have an older (circa) 2003 system (Niveus AV Storage Server) that I use to store Movie Rips (DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD). It has a 600MHZ Via Eden CPU with accompanying Via CLE266 northbridge. It's ...