It doesn’t have to be a winner-take-all debate. Using both changed how I manage Linux apps for the better.

Clement Lefebvre, the head of the Linux Mint project, has updated us on the state of the upcoming 18.3 release. It'll come with support for the Flatpak package system and include Redshift by default.

There are hundreds of Linux distributions to choose from, and while there are some similarities (they all use some version of the Linux kernel and most support a variety of popular desktop ...

Linux developers are going to have more than one choice for building secure, cross-distribution applications. Ubuntu’s “snap” applications recently went cross-platform, having been ported to other ...

Once upon a time, GNOME and KDE got along like cats and dogs. That was then. This is now. At Linux Application Summit (LAS) in Barcelona, the two, along with other desktop developers, came together to ...

...smells a lot like the "Klik" package manager a few years back. Not necessarily a bad idea, but with maybe 99% of Linux systems running .deb or .rpm, and tools to allow interoperability, who really ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Mar 22, 2019, 01:58pm EDT Mar 23, 2019, 06:46am EDT This article ...

Why it matters: Linux has become the backbone of many technology standards and software products. In the traditional desktop space, however, the open-source kernel is anything but a successful. If the ...

The Arch Linux ecosystem is quite broad, and some parts are not happy. One of the maintainers of the Arch-based Garuda Linux, ...