Ubuntu is about to undergo a dramatic overhaul. No, I don’t mean the huge shift to a converged Unity 8 desktop with the Mir display server, although that’s also coming. Ubuntu is going to move past ...

Credit: Ian Noble; Modified by IDG Comm. Did you know that you can ask your Linux system to tell you what upgrades are available for the packages installed on it? You might be surprised by how many ...

Mint is basically Linux with training wheels. If you’re ready to move on, try these three distros.

Do you ever wonder how many thousands of packages are installed on your Linux system? And, yes, I said “thousands.” Even a fairly modest Linux system is likely to have well over a thousand packages ...

As of Canonical’s announcement, Snaps already work on Arch, Debian, and Fedora, as well as the Ubuntu-based Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu systems ...

Want to find open-source tools? Linux distros have long had the tradition that software is bundled into easily installed packages. Yet, finding packages can be less than intuitively obvious and even ...

Linux Mint has confirmed it is switching to a longer development cycle, in order to give the team more time to 'fix bugs and ...

What do you do when it’s time to port the most popular Linux distribution to a completely different architecture? Canonical employee [David Mandalla] works on their ARM development team and recently ...

Ubuntu used to be the easiest recommendation for a new Linux user, but recent bad decisions have caused things to shift in ...