Windows XP’s long run may have finally come to an end, but that doesn’t mean your XP-era hardware has to go too. No indeed: There are numerous options available in the Linux world, and one shining ...

I’ll bet that somewhere, perhaps at home and most likely at work, you’ve got some old hardware lying around. What to do with it? It still works but what’s it running? Windows XP? Vista? Windows 7 ...

Just when you think you have found the sweet spot with an ideal Linux desktop distro, along comes yet another version to tug at your computing heart strings. In this case, it is LXLE.Lubuntu eXtra ...

LXLE is an ideal distro for out-of-the-box functionality to handle your everyday computing needs. It’s a well-oiled lightweight distribution based on Ubuntu’s long-term support releases for Debian and ...

For users of Microsoft Windows, frequent hardware upgrades tend to be a fact of life in order to keep each new iteration of the resources-hungry operating system running smoothly. Not so Linux, ...

While writing two recent posts about Linux with some recommendations for a novice and my experience of trying out Linux on a netbook, I said several times that Manjaro LXQt might be a good candidate.

We list the best lightweight Linux distros, to make it simple and easy to run a simpler Linux OS on older x86 computers. This means you shouldn't expect these distros to provide blistering performance ...

As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. Consider this: With Windows 10 nearing the end ...

DistroWatch is the premiere desktop Linux distribution site. Over the weekend it mysteriously disappeared and is still unavailable at DistroWatch.com as I write this roundup. But you can reach it at ...

In today's open source roundup: uTorrent installs Bitcoin mining software. Plus: DistroWatch reviews Sabayon Linux 15.02, and Everyday Linux User reviews LXLE 14.04.1 uTorrent is a popular BitTorrent ...