Unlike Windows or macOS, Linux isn’t a single operating system. It’s a family of distributions, or distros, each designed for ...

Slackware was the first formalized Linux distro, released in 1993, ... Slackware in general is much closer to classic Unix than newer Linux versions, ...

Included are the latest versions of numerous popular distros, including Ubuntu 12.10, Kubuntu 12.10, openSUSE 12.2, Fedora 17, Debian 6, CentOS 6, Mint 14, Gentoo 12, Mandriva 2011, and Slackware 14.

In honor of Linux week, I’d like to talk about some distros I’ve known and loved. This isn’t an exhaustive list and many aren’t really distros, but it’s more an exercise in nostalgia ...

From a security perspective of Linux reliability, most attacks occur at the kernel level. All Linux distros use the same kernel, so that is an advantage. But when security really counts, Unix is more ...

With Linux disk and file tools like parted, partimage, fstools and many others, and support for almost all Linux, Unix and Windows file systems, such as ext2/ext3/ext4, FAT, JFS, NTFS, ReiserFS ...

A free variant of Unix called MINIX was available, but it didn’t take full advantage of Intel’s 32-bit chip. ... Apache and the other examples mentioned are distribution or distros of Linux.

Linux entered the world of technology with little more than a kernel to call its own. That was the intent of a young computer science student from Helsinki named Linus Torvalds in doing this personal ...

Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

PwnKit was discovered by researchers from security firm Qualys in November and was disclosed on Tuesday after being patched in most Linux distributions. PwnKit is tracked as CVE-2021-4034.