Reviving a relic PC with an OS shouldn't make it unusable by modern standards. MX Linux Fluxbox is meticulously created with a desktop environment that is super light but usable. It won't look like ...

Most desktop and laptop computers from the past two decades use 64-bit x86 processors, but older 32-bit x86 CPUs (also known as i386 or i686) are still around. Even though Windows and many Linux ...

Welcome to an ongoing series here at Forbes that zeroes in on your very first experience with a desktop Linux operating system: the installer. This time around I'm checking out a distribution my ...

When new, the netbook came with Windows 7 Starter Edition, which [Igor] replaced with Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04, which was its own adventure, but the netbook worked well and got dragged around the ...

When I first started blogging about Linux, MEPIS was one of the first distributions that I wrote about. I always liked it, and enjoyed using it, so I was disappointed when it quietly died a few years ...