Linux, to me, is like all the girls in college when you’re still dating a girl from back home. Free, good looking, easy to use, and with a lot of cool, unique features and abilities. After a while, ...

The start-up that was going to make Linux dead-easy is dead. Eazel closed its doors this week after 16 months of developing a Linux interface for the consumer market. The company had spent the last ...

In the January 2011 Computer Power User magazine there is a review of a new Ubuntu derivative designed for novice computer users to run Linux on their desktop, Pinguy OS. The developer of this new ...

The folks behind Kuki Linux weren’t the only ones busy pushing out a major update recently. Easy Peasy, (formerly Ubuntu Eee) turned 1.5 this week. Easy Peasy is based on Ubuntu Linux, but the ...

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

I remember back in the day when Linux was a challenge, even for computer scientists. It was all text-based; you had to manually format the hard drive, understand how networking functioned, and use the ...

For the first time in her life, 62-year old mother Chit Bernardo used her son’s laptop computer to go online and browse Facebook. She even went on to play solitaire and sudoku to pass time. What made ...

Linux Mint isn’t chasing touch interfaces, rethinking the way we use the desktop, or enacting any other grand experiment. It’s just a polished, modern Linux desktop system—and that’s why people love ...