What followed was a wild but fun whirlwind tour of Linux distros. I quickly felt that Linux Mint wasn't for me, and so, I ...

If you need to up your Linux skills, play a game. There are several games, each focusing on a different skill. These games are free to play as often as you need. Get more ZDNET: Add us as a preferred ...

Last November, I wrote about running Ubuntu on a Chromebook using ChrUbuntu. In that post, I noted some of the advantages of running ChrUbuntu: I really liked having a full-blown desktop environment ...

I've been using Linux for a very long time, and from day 1, the terminal window and command-line interface (CLI) have been an integral part of my work. At the same time, I've learned that it's OK to ...

If you’ve got some non-geek friends and relatives that need to be convinced to give Linux a try, here’s a how-to video to help. It will walk them through how to install Ubuntu to any Windows machine, ...

The terminal isn’t a black box. These beginner commands help you navigate, find files, manage apps, and undo mistakes with ...

The fun part of Mint is the fact that it has great appeal for client device support, especially for multimedia apps and components. It’s constantly updated, which is seen by some as a fulfilled vision ...

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, ...

Very little in the Linux universe interacts directly with the physical world. Although you may have peripherals that allow you to work with the computer, the computer has no way to interact with you.

When Wim Coekaerts is solving problems and building things, he’s happy. When he’s not, he’s not. In his long career, he’s found joy working on early database appliances, and later guiding Oracle’s ...

Running Linux makes you smarter, and we've got proof. In his article on Nagios on page 52, Richard C. Harlan explains how John Deere integrated its diverse server management needs under the thumb of ...

Windows 10 with the latest Creators Update. Hardware: A 64-bit processor and at least 1GB free on your C drive. “Oh Lordy, no, not that Linux again!” cries out the rightly indignant Maximum PC reader.