Linux got its start in the 1990s as an alternative operating system for older PCs that didn’t have the horsepower to run newer versions of Windows. So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising ...

Available since 2012, RebeccaBlackOS is a live Debian-based Linux distro that has been and remains one of the few such operating systems capable of running a Wayland session in a live environment.

"On the server side, about 1989, '90, we dropped the 32-bit server strategy," said Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman, president and CEO, at LinuxWorld. "We just said, 'That's dead,' that it's not going ...