Installing FreeBSD is straightforward with a text-based installer and automatic partitioning available. Installing apps and ...

We will be looking at a bunch of different alternatives for IDM in this listicle and these will be the ones that will work on Windows, macOS, or any Linux distro of your choice ... Linux, and BSD ...

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Facebook is reportedly removing posts which share links to DistroWatch Other mentions of Linux and open-source OSs also affected Meta says this was an "error" and that it's been fixed Some posts ...

pkg is built on top of libpkg, a new library to interface with the package registration backends. It abstracts package management details such as registration, remote repositories, package creation, ...

As of the June 2024 release of dotNET the SDK and Installer have been merged into a single repo making building much harder. The exception to this is the Y.0.1xx branch. I will be using this going ...

Ubuntu Linux derives its name from a Zulu/Xhosa term for "community" or "togetherness", which is appropriate given that for years it's been the most popular Linux distro for personal users.

While an official announcement is still pending, Linux Mint 22.1, codenamed Xia, has been released. The new Mint's ISO images are now ready to be downloaded and installed. I'm eager to get it up ...

New research has found that data centres can reduce their energy usage by up to 30% simply by altering around 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel’s network stack. Research Firm Wiz Research ...

Recently, I discovered an Arch-based Linux distro called SDesk, and there couldn't be a clearer use case for it. Firstly, SDesk is fairly straightforward and doesn't do all that much to separate ...

Facebook has lifted a temporary ban preventing users from posting links to popular OS comparison site Distrowatch – after going so far as to lock the account of the site's editor. In the latest ...