If you have a telescope or just like studying the skies, you'll appreciate the Kstars app from the KDE project. It's a ...

Snap and Flatpak are Linux universal package managers. Both have their pros and cons. Each gives Linux far more apps to ...

This tool works just as well on Linux as it does on macOS, offering consistent workflows, user-space installs, and ...

Do you want to know how to tell real Linux geeks from people who just use it? Ask them what their favorite application packaging system is. Hardcore old-school Linux users will soon be telling you all ...

The Linux platform is home to a vast and highly diverse ecosystem of open source software applications. These programs are developed through a collaborative process that often relies heavily on the ...

After I wrote in my article, Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows, about the trouble I had with installing and updating Linux applications, I received literally hundreds of helpful ...

There are a surprisingly large number of music players on Linux, and while we know the choice is a deeply personal one, we recommend Banshee for all your music listening needs. Note that music players ...

Authentication is a mechanism that verifies whether an entity is who it claims to be. On a Linux system, applications, such as su, passwd or login, are used to authenticate users before they are given ...

The "Year of the Desktop" has been a perennial call to arms that's sunken into a joke that's way past its expiration date. We frequently talk about the "Year of the Desktop", but we don't really talk ...

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...