Credit: christin hume / Linux / Modified by IDG Comm. There’s a lot more to identifying a Linux release than citing a simple version number. Even a quick look at the output from the uname command can ...

While I'm young enough to have largely grown up on graphical user interfaces, my recent interest in Linux has certainly shown me three things: You can't get away from the command line completely in ...

Slackware has been one of my favorite GNU/Linux distributions for a very long time, especially since Version 8.0 came out, many moons back. The reason is that it embodies the "KISS" method of ...

Remember MINIX? Short for Minimal UNIX, MINIX is a close cousin of GNU/Linux. To GNU/Linux users, it is simultaneously familiar and foreign, and it challenges orthodox assumptions about how an ...