PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

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Dell’s XPS 13 Developer Edition, the company’s flagship “just works” Ubuntu-based machine, was recently refreshed. These days Dell’s XPS line is not the cheapest Linux option, nor is it the most ...

Open-source software combined with commercially licensed software has become a market reality, as open-source technologies like Linux and Apache, already tremendous market successes, are combined into ...

A disclaimer: There's no real such thing as a Linux laptop. Linux will work on just about any PC, and I mean that literally. Remember the Intel Pentium 4 processor? It came out in 2000, and it's still ...

This series on how to get started using Embedded Linux is on my Open Mike blog. This installment discusses development models. There are two different models of Embedded Linux development: ...