Franklin has been covering tech and cybersecurity for over 5 years. His work has appeared on TechRepublic, The Register, TechInformed, Computing, ServerWatch, and Moonlock, among others. Linux is an ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

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Why it’s great: Ubuntu is one of the most recognizable Linux distributions, and for good reason. It offers a polished ...

The Linux kernel remains the beating heart of the OS. In 2026, we’ll likely see: New Long-Term Support (LTS) Baselines: With releases like 6.18 already declared LTS and successor branches maturing, ...

The collection of user data has become a contentious issue for people worldwide. Fortunately, Canonical has shown how it can be done right.

It’s been an exciting year for Linux so far, thanks at least in part to the release of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal,” which is shaping up to be the first desktop Linux release targeted squarely at ...

For decades, desktop Linux distributions primarily used the X Window System (X11) for rendering displays and graphics, but ...

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