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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have any of your Linux ISOs been flagged up as malware by anti-virus software? If so, here's what you should do. DistroWatch, a popular website in the Linux world for gauging the popularity of Linux ...