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Jordan W. Suchow is an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he studies brains, minds and machines. He can be found online at http://suchow.io ...

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PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.