Unlike Windows or macOS, Linux isn’t a single operating system. It’s a family of distributions, or distros, each designed for different users and goals. According to DistroWatch, there are hundreds of ...

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

A version of the Linux operating system and related components. A Linux distribution includes the Linux kernel, software modules from the GNU Project, an installation program, window manager (user ...

Installing "Linux" is actually a bit of a misnomer. When people say this, they're actually referring to installing a distribution (distro) that uses the Linux kernel (the core of an OS) as a base ...

Linux distributions—or “distros”—are the projects that package all this software into an easily installable, usable operating system. Trying a Linux distribution is extremely easy.

While Rust didn’t make it into Linux 6.0, it now seems extremely likely that Rust will land in the Linux 6.1 kernel release which might be out by the end of 2022.

As we’ve come to expect, with each new kernel release, there’s new hardware to be supported. Linux kernel 5.15 is no exception. The list of added or improved hardware support includes: ...