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Rhino Linux is a new GNU/Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but which handles some key things differently from Canonical’s operating system. Unlike Ubuntu, Rhino is a rolling release operating ...

If there’s one thing the world probably doesn’t need right now, it’s yet another custom Linux distribution for netbooks based on Ubuntu. But that’s exactly what we’ve got with Leeenux. And yet there ...

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Editor’s Note: We’d like to let you know that starting Nov. 6, this newsletter will be renamed Network World’s Linux & Open Source Newsletter. The name change will better reflect the focus of this ...

You’ve heard all the accusations. Gaming on Linux is crazy, right? Gamers should use a Windows PC and be done with it. Linux is all terminal commands and Firefox stuff. Valve would like a word with ...

A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Lenny Zeltser on Thursday released REMnux on Sourceforge and it has ...

I've used Windows for decades, but I tried Linux to see if it's truly 'easy' now - and one thing surprised me ...

A lot of that stuff will probably be worked out in the next year or so. At one time, daily use of any Linux distro looked like that. Getting anything going, ever, was a constant struggle. Once you had ...