You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

If you've used Windows for long enough, you'll know that it tends to develop "crud" over the months. It accumulates from a ...

Sometimes you need to use someone else's computer. Maybe you're at a library, maybe you're at a friend's house helping them troubleshoot a new device on their network. Whatever the situation, sitting ...

Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...

Portable and modular, Orbitiny runs on top of your existing window manager - such as KDE Plasma or GNOME - like a regular app.

I've done some reading about immutable Linux distros and, well, I guess I don't get what all the fuss is about. The idea seems to be to 'harden' a system by making it hard to modify, but. . . Isn't ...

I would like to use linux to backup my windows box to my linux server. I have a win2k laptop that I would like to boot one of the portable linux distros off of a cd and use dd & gzip to back it up to ...

GitHub gets the heave-ho by a software developer group. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old developer takes on the maintainer role of the near-abandoned Unity desktop. The start of the summer season brought new ...

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 ...