As a happy Ubuntu user, I was pleased last week when I received a note announcing the Ubuntu Foundation. The Ubuntu Foundation was created to fund development of Ubuntu and to separate Ubuntu ...

Debian 9 “Stretch” just came out, and as far as Linux distros go, Debian stands apart as a distribution meant for stability. Sure, most desktop users might choose Ubuntu or Fedora for their desktop PC ...

Computer hardware maker Hewlett-Packard acknowledged Thursday that the company plans to use the Debian distribution of Linux as the basis for future development. The company's decision to focus on the ...

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Debian 8—nicknamed “Jessie” after the cowgirl character in Toy Story 2 and 3—debuted last week, but it feels overdue. The release was in development within the Testing channel for quite a while, and, ...

Linux Mint Debian 4, or LMDE4, is now available. Does it really matter whether you run this latest Linux Mint release, based on Debian Linux, instead of Linux Mint 19.3, based on Ubuntu Linux? The ...

Linux may be enjoying great popularity in the mobile arena, thanks to Android–and even on the desktop, to an increasing extent–but there’s no denying its longtime success on servers. With outstanding ...

Debian and Ubunt͏u are widely used di͏stri͏butions amon͏g Linux u͏se͏rs. If you're looking to choose between these operating systems, your ͏expectations from a distro will play a major role. Ubuntu͏ ...