Computer hardware maker Hewlett-Packard acknowledged Thursday that the company plans to use the Debian distribution of Linux as the basis for future development. The company's decision to focus on the ...

Whether you want to run a simple desktop or host your own servers, check out these Debian spin-offs first.

Linux may be enjoying great popularity in the mobile arena, thanks to Android–and even on the desktop, to an increasing extent–but there’s no denying its longtime success on servers. With outstanding ...

From just learning to code to seasoned developers, these are your distros of choice.

After 25 months of development, the makers of the granddaddy of the Linux OSes released an upgrade that updates many of the software packages and plays general catch-up with modern Linux trends.

Linux-based operating systems like Ubuntu and Debian may be standalone operating systems. But thanks to an optional Windows 10 feature called Windows Subsystem for Linux, it’s been possible to install ...

The recent release of Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) has gotten me thinking about the Debian development/release cycle again. It is actually pretty interesting, and quite different from any other Linux ...

Debian 8—nicknamed “Jessie” after the cowgirl character in Toy Story 2 and 3—debuted last week, but it feels overdue. The release was in development within the Testing channel for quite a while, and, ...

Ben Collins has been named new leader of the project developing the Debian version of Linux, according to voting results announced Thursday. Collins replaces Wichhert Akkerman, who had been Debian ...

The Debian Linux distribution isn't a ground-breaking Linux. If you want a cutting-edge distribution, Fedora Linux is the one for you. After all, Debian 7 uses the over-a-year-old Linux 3.2 kernel as ...