In today's open source roundup: Debian versus Ubuntu. Plus: Five Linux distros for your computer, and which game genres need more games on Linux? Ubuntu and Debian are two of the most popular options ...

LH317 has mentioned Ubuntu/Debian in the same breath a few times recently - can anybody give a quick clarification on their relationship (if they have one) and what is or isn't cross-compatible ...

Debian and Ubuntu are moving to update all C++ packages with GCC5, which was released in April. GCC stands for Gnu Compiler Collection, and it is used to convert source code to executable code and ...

His suggestions were, in the main, geared towards getting the Debian developers behind the idea of freezing the next release, Squeeze, by December. Towards this end, he even offered the services of ...