Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a question that I've been recently asking myself. Within the Linux crowd, Debian is often looked upon as one of the ...

I traded Ubuntu's flashy interface for Debian’s "No Nonsense" philosophy, and I'm not going back.

Debian and Ubuntu are similar, but they're not the same Debian is more stable, and Ubuntu is easier to use. I'd only recommend one of them to users new to Linux. Ubuntu is based on Debian, and ...

In today's open source roundup: Debian versus Ubuntu. Plus: Five Linux distros for your computer, and which game genres need more games on Linux? Ubuntu and Debian are two of the most popular options ...

We have a Debian machine here at work that is used for just a couple of small but quite useful things. It happily sits in our server room with only an ethernet and power line going into it. It runs ...

Freenet has generated a lot of hype for being the “son of Napster” or some equally degrading report. For Freenet to survive, it needs to get away from being just another way to get illegal MP3s. In ...

IPv6 is the successor to our current internet protocol, IPv4. It offers many new features, including vastly increased address space--128 bits vs. IPv4's measly 32 bits--easier autoconfiguration and ...