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Why is Linux better suited to educational environments than either MacOS or Windows? Several reasons: Reliability, security, ...

Case in point: DistroWatch‘s page hit rankings for Linux distributions. I’ve covered DistroWatch’s top 10 at the end of each of the past two years, and the differences never fail to be striking.

In today's open source roundup: Should you use a rolling release distro or a fixed release? Plus: How the philosophy of Linux affects its users, and why Windows 10 needs the Linux desktop.

Debian GNU/Linux is like the granddaddy of Linux distros in more ways than one. It is one of the oldest, biggest, and still-existing distro. It is also one of the slowest moving, due to its ...

But just because they are different doesn’t mean they aren’t useful. In fact, all of the distros have a niche following and their dedicated community of users and developers has helped power ...