Although Linux is the king of open-source OSes, there are options. Here you'll find a few open-source OSes to toy around with. Don't expect any of these to be viable options for daily use. When you ...

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I've been using Ubuntu for decades. Whether you're new to the OS or returning to it after a while, these are the essential apps, hidden settings, and useful tweaks you need to know about.

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Readers respond to Alan Milburn’s finding that exam-focused schools are failing to prepare pupils for the real world Alan Milburn is right to warn that an “exam-obsessed” school system is failing to ...

Former minister leading review into young people and work cites survey showing most teachers decry lack of ‘soft skills’ An “exam-obsessed” school system is leaving young people unprepared for work, ...

Here at PCMag, we've tested thousands of laptops since our lab's founding more than 40 years ago. Our analysts and editors have more than a collective century of experience telling the good laptops ...

For years, colleges have relied upon Advanced Placement or AP exams as tougher, more stable signals of college readiness than high school grade point averages. But that trust is now misplaced — at ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

The walls are coming down, but which side of the fence is better? We pit Apple and Google against each other across 14 essential categories to see who truly rules the smartphone space. In 2014, I ...