Live CDs, DVDs or USB drives let you run Linux without actually installing it. Here are five reasons why you should. In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for ...

Live patching is a way of updating a running system without stopping it. It is best known as a technique for keeping Linux servers updated to the latest security levels without affecting downtime.

One of the great features of many Linux distributions is the ability to test them out before committing to installing them on your hard drive. Live distributions can be burned to bootable CDs, DVDs, ...

Damn Small Linux (DSL) has officially received an alpha test 2024 release after a presumed final release back in 2007. Plus, Linux has always been about choice, so variety in your lightweight Linux ...

Knoppix is one of the oldest Linux distributions still around, and it was one of the first Linux Live CD distributions. If my memory is correct, the first generally available release of Knoppix (on a ...

You don't need to reinstall your whole operating system just because you forgot your Linux login. It's actually pretty easy ...

As a longtime fan of Linux, I’m a big believer that most business users would benefit greatly by dumping Windows and switching over to the open source operating system instead. It’s stable, it’s ...

In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for anyone to use and modify however they like, the operating system has been put to a lot of uses. Today, a vast number of ...