The wait is over. Debian 8.0—“Jessie”—will be released on April 25, after a nearly two-year development cycle for the next release of this long-standing Linux distribution. Microsoft is even throwing ...

In today's open source roundup: Debian 8 Jesse has been released. Plus: Did open source principles matter when Linux was created? And can you play games on a Chromebox computer? Many Linux users have ...

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The latest point-release update of Debian GNU/Linux (8.3) came out last week, so I decided to take this opportunity to review what distribution media are available, and how/where they can/can't be ...

Debian 8: Linux's most reliable distro makes its biggest change since 1993 Debian 8 -- nicknamed "Jessie" after the cowgirl character in Toy Story 2 and 3 -- debuted last week, but it feels overdue.

Honestly, I'm probably the only person who's in the middle on systemd. I'm hoping that forcing it upon Debian's greybeards will improve it though. As the review states, it works well enough on the ...

I spend a significant portion of my life installing and testing distributions of Linux-based systems. It’s really rather ridiculous. Even obscure ones—ones that never stand a chance of being listed on ...