Mageia 10 marks 15 years since the distribution's first release in June 2011. The project began the previous year as a fork ...
Linux got its start in the 1990s as an alternative operating system for older PCs that didn’t have the horsepower to run newer versions of Windows. So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising ...
The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There’s always another feature to implement, an optimization to make, and of course ...
Seven years ago, Linus Torvalds dropped "ancient-386-CPUs" support from the Linux kernel, dismissing it with "good riddance." While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux's ...
Should Linux distributions continue to issue 32-bit images any longer or phase them out over a year or two? This question was resurrected recently by Ubuntu developer Dimitri John Ledkov, with a ...
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I'm using a SPARCstation 5 with a 70MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. Solaris, OpenBSD, and NetBSD install just fine.<P>What I'm finding is that Linux distros that I've used on newer UltraSPARCs aren't ...
Debian, Fedora, and Arch: the big three distributions on which nearly all other flavors of Linux are based. You can throw a rock into an ocean of distributions and be certain you'll hit an operating ...
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Christine Hall at Foss Force considers whether or not Linux offers too much in the way of choice for users. Do we have too many distros available? Has that hurt the adoption of Linux on the desktop? I ...