In a world teeming with Linux distributions — from Ubuntu to Arch, Debian to Fedora — the idea of building your own may seem daunting, if not redundant. Yet, for many technologists, enthusiasts, and ...

Follow along with this step-by-step guide to build your own distribution from source and learn how it installs, loads and runs. When working with Linux, you easily can download any of the most common ...

Creating GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) with any operating system boils down to Ncurses / Whiptail type GUIs for the terminal, or full blown GUIs on the desktop. We will be building the latter, but ...

Gumstix, a company that has been selling small system boards – about the size of a “gum stick” – for years, is now offering crowdfunding for hardware that users can design themselves. (Stick with me ...

Microsoft this week published some Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open source code on the GitHub repository. Specifically, Microsoft published the Distro Launcher code that's used with its WSL ...

Microsoft is offering a bounty of $100,000 to anyone who can hack its custom Linux OS. According to a report from The Verge, a compact and custom version of Linux was built by the software giant last ...