Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, will on Thursday begin making commercial applications available to Ubuntu users directly through the desktop, in a step ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps to install software that gives you access to an Arch Linux AUR-like repository from non-Arch-based distributions. Arch Linux has a community-driven repository ...

Linux software repositories have many benefits. But, like what happens in app stores, companies end support for them and your system stops getting updates. Eight years ago, Nokia released a ...

There’s no shortage of small, low-power PC-on-a-module devices designed to piggyback on the success of the Raspberry Pi. But one problem with some of these cheap single board computers is that they ...

It's bound to roil open source advocates, but some Ubuntu leaders are asking the community which third-party, proprietary applications should be available for easy installation. You can weigh in on ...