If you started using GNU/Linux in the last 10 years or so, there’s a very good chance your first distribution was Ubuntu. But despite what you may have heard on some of the elitist Linux message ...

Back in 1991, a computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced on a newsgroup that he was creating a "hobby OS." That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating ...

People sometimes ask which distribution to try if they want to learn how Linux works. Common answers are Gentoo, Arch, or Debian. However, I disagree. Each of these distros teach users their ...

But your talk sounds like you hadn't used a dependency-managing tool to me And yet I have many years experience with several of them. I have used Debian and RedHat and derivatives extensively. In fact ...

Softpedia has been informed today, March 17, 2016, by GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton about the immediate availability of a custom compiled Linux 4.5 kernel for Slackware Linux Current (14.2) and all ...

Slackel is a Linux distro a step away from the mainstream Debian-based Linux OS line. It is based on Slackware and Salix. Users already familiar with that lineage are more inclined to like Slackel.

Being first doesn’t guarantee success in the technology industry. Remember the Netscape browser? Still, it can have its advantages, such as a different or unique approach to things. Such is the case ...

I am old. I have been working with Unix for a long time. In fact, at the end of a recent job interview one of the participants said to me “It’s interesting, you have more years of Unix experience than ...

Slackware 13.37 has been released, the latest major stable update to the venerable Linux distribution, the oldest surviving project that still sees active development. Many packages have been updated, ...

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