Now that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can easily use GUI apps in Windows 11, you might be looking to branch out a little from the command line. If you're still fairly new to Linux, too, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canonical has a plan, and it involves Snappy. What is Snappy? At the moment, Snappy comes in one flavor─Snappy Core─a ...

I’ve tried most major Linux distros at this point, and I usually talk about the obvious differences, like what they’re based on, or which desktop environment they ship with. But lately, I’ve realized ...

Linux has numerous package managers. There are command-line and GUI tools for the task. Not all package managers are created equal. When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called ...

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 ...

A logic flaw between Ubuntu's 'command-not-found' package suggestion system and the snap package repository could enable attackers to promote malicious Linux packages to unsuspecting users. Malicious ...