After a knock-out 2017, 2018 promises to be a big year for Linux. In this post we share 8 Linux predictions for the coming year, ranging from the possible to the improbable.

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Brief: Taking a look back to some of the biggest news stories of the year 2017.


2017 has been an eventful year in the history of Linux. Lots of ups and downs throughout the year. There were a number of stories that impacted Linux users. I am just making…

Arch Linux 2018.01.01 is now available for download

We're back with another round-up of recent Linux app releases, including updates to LibreOffice, Dash to Dock, Tilix terminal emulator and more.

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Following the September release of Manjaro Linux 17.0.3, the developers of this Arch Linux-based distro have shipped Manjaro Linux 17.1.0. Released on December 31st, 2017, it marks the last Manjaro offering of 2017. In other words, you can kickstart 2018…

Users are urged to update their systems as soon as possible

The release will be supported until 2023

From a variety of options, you can choose the Linux distributions and revive your old computer with the best lightweight Linux distros.

Speed hits loom, other OSes need fixes

Gives users the ability to enable the updates selectively to better understand their impact on sensitive workloads

Posted by Matt Linton, Senior Security Engineer and Pat Parseghian, Technical Program Manager [Google Cloud, G Suite, and Chrome customers...

Patches are coming soon for these critical vulnerabilities

For the past year, we’ve compared nearly 4,700 Node.js projects to pick Top 25 (0.9% chance).