Perhaps the most popular of all Linux desktop sites, DistroWatch went down over the July 4 weekend. DistroWatch went down because of an issue with its domain register. This would not be the first, nor ...

DistroWatch is the premiere desktop Linux distribution site. Over the weekend it mysteriously disappeared and is still unavailable at DistroWatch.com as I write this roundup. But you can reach it at ...

When I first started using and writing about Linux in the late 1990s, there were just a few distributions to choose from, and even those were a bit hard to discover (unless you knew the right bulletin ...

CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the ...

We've seen Facebook ban posts about various Linux-related topics, sites, and groups, and we've seen reports of people getting their accounts locked for posting Linux content. DistroWatch.com: Put the ...

Don’t use DistroWatch as a measuring stick in any way for the popularity of a Linux distribution. Seriously, stop it. In fact, why are we even asking the question at all? “Popularity” is a term that ...

In a weirdly surprising move, Facebook is restricting posts related to Linux content on its platform and flagging them against its Community Guidelines, including popular site DistroWatch. In an odd ...

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 ...

Does Facebook hate Linux? The social media site has been upsetting Linux fans for mysteriously taking down user posts mentioning the OS. The problem came to light when DistroWatch, a site that covers ...