If you started using GNU/Linux in the last 10 years or so, there’s a very good chance your first distribution was Ubuntu. But despite what you may have heard on some of the elitist Linux message ...

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Back in 1991, a computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced on a newsgroup that he was creating a "hobby OS." That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating ...

The world of desktop Linux is often portrayed these days as a battle primarily between longstanding leader Ubuntu and up-and-coming challenger Linux Mint, frequently with the suggestion that Mint is ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Canonical's Ubuntu 11.04, being the current gem of the ...

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Over the last 24 hours, no less than 11 new versions of popular Linux distributions have been released, but can Ubuntu survive the change to Unity? Canonical's Ubuntu 11.04, being the current gem of ...