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 ...

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.

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 ...

It's almost as there is a front runner, already.

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 ...

The internet is a fickle beast. Just when you think a company or community of developers have come out with a bit of technology that could help an operating system or piece of software rise above, ...

The Flatpak framework for distributing Linux desktop applications is now in prodaction release, after three years of beta status. The framework, originally called XDG-app, is intended to make Linux ...

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 ...

...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 ...

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