There are Linux distributions out there for pretty much every taste and purpose, but every once in a while I’ll come across one that seems especially intriguing. That happened this week with the ...

Jack Wallen kicks the tires of AV Linux and comes away impressed with the performance. Find out if this distribution is what you should be using for audio/visual content creation. I must confess, I do ...

My past few posts have been about Debian GNU/Linux and its derivatives. However, the derivatives I have looked at so far have been general-purpose distributions and there is another large and very ...

No single Linux distribution can compete with Windows’ hardware compatibility. But you’ll find a surprising breadth of support for graphics hardware Early Linux desktops were crude affairs, sharing ...

Turbolinux, a Japanese seller of the open-source operating system, bridges a philosophical divide by licensing Microsoft technology for playing digital music and video. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

As a multimedia-capable platform Linux has seen terrific growth over the past few years. At the system level, a simple kernel patch can now improve scheduler efficiency and bring performance latencies ...

Linux and multimedia once again is the target of a book, this one coming from the long series of Hacks books published by O'Reilly. Although the cover credits one author, Kyle Rankin, about a quarter ...

A typical Linux system is largely comprised of unrestricted, open-source software. But some of the most popular software around is either closed-source or open-source, but restricted by patents.

I've used Linux for 30 years - 4 frustrations remain, including 2 that may push me to MacOS ...

Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop distributions around. And one of its most appealing features was that it shipped with multimedia codecs. But that practice will end with Linux Mint 18, ...

Linux has been enjoying a wealth of publicity on the Desktop at the moment with Canonical, Novell, and Co pushing an image of professionalism for Linux that has been lacking up until now. Down at ...