So, what does the word ultimate mean in the context of Linux-based laptop computers? Should it be the laptop to blow away all others? Or might the best model be more subtle in its “ultimateness”?

Last month and 2 months ago we said that the site of the GNU/Linux distribution "Ultimate Edition" had been hijacked/compromised. This issue seems to have been resolved since (compare [ 1, 2] to the ...

In today's open source roundup: The Ubuntu-based Ultimate Edition 4.6 Gamers is packed with Linux games. Plus: Amazon gets rid of the last of its Fire phones. And Steam for Linux usage rises again ...

Masen Marshall, pictured above, is not your ordinary Linux user. No, he’s the Ultimate Linux Guru, a title bestowed upon him by his significant contributions to the Linux.com user community. He’s seen ...

Every once and a great while I stumble on a Linux distro that makes me sit up and smile. Modicia O.S. is one of them. It is not that Modicia steps over the bleeding edge of innovation. It is a ...

When determining the basic specifications for what the Ultimate Linux Desktop should be capable of, one thing Editor in Chief Nicholas Petreley and I agreed on was that it should have at least two ...

Network World’s resident Linux enthusiast Bryan Lunduke set out on a mission to immerse himself in a variety of Linux desktops, using each exclusively for both work and personal computing for at least ...

Windows and Linux are like the sides of a coin; the differences between both are stark. Microsoft Windows is a proprietary operating system created by Microsoft and is the widely used operating system ...

Every once and a great while I stumble on a Linux distro that makes me sit up and smile. Modicia O.S. is one of them. It is not that Modicia steps over the bleeding edge of innovation. It is a ...