With support for Windows 10 ending in late 2025, you might be thinking of updating to Windows 11, but you'd be missing on all ...

Back in 2008 when a significant percentage of netbooks were shipping with Linux rather than Windows, Linpus Linux Lite looked like a major player. Acer had tapped the folks at Linpus to design the OS ...

Some days, you really need to run a Windows-only program, even if you're a die-hard Linux user -- like yours truly. For those times, I often turn to Wine (formerly an acronym for "Wine Is Not an ...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I can confidently say that an Ubuntu-based Linux OS called “LinuxFx” really admires the appearance of Microsoft’s Windows 10. In fact, this distribution ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will bypass the Windows 10 firewall and any configured rules, raising security concerns for those who use the feature. In a blog post today, Mullvad VPN explained ...

If you can't find your favorite Windows Subsystem for Linux distribution available in the Microsoft Store, a new program called EasyWSL can convert almost any Linux Docker image into a WSL distro. The ...

Do you have an old PC lying around? Maybe your Windows 10 PC won't support Windows 11, and you're not interested in purchasing a new machine. What do you do? You can turn to a lightweight Linux ...

Your computer is probably a lot like your car. Neither new nor old, it has a few quirks, but it gets you around reliably, in relative comfort and at low cost. How would you feel, then, if the big ...

BellSoft has released Alpaquita Linux, an operating system based upon Alpine Linux, optimized for containerized Java applications. A plain Docker image is available, as well as Docker images with ...