ZDNET's key takeaways Q4OS is a great way to test the Linux OS.A special Windows installer makes things easy.You can install ...

Linux is both the most popular operating system and a niche end-user OS. How can that be? Follow along, my friends, and I’ll tell you. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: will be the year of the ...

The Linux operating system is a powerful, flexible, secure, and reliable platform that can serve just about any purpose you need. From server to desktop, IoT to containers, embedded systems, and much ...

The KDE team has released KDE Plasma 6, the biggest update to the free and open source desktop environment since Plasma 5 launched nearly ten years ago. Those changes should have a big impact on ...

You point your browser at a local IP address or hostname and suddenly you have a full XFCE desktop running in your browser.

Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? These are my picks.

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux ...

MX Linux is a blend of mostly old and some new things. The result is an appealing midweight Linux operating system. The midweight category is a bit unusual. Desktop environments that run well on ...

Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...