You don't need to live in the Linux terminal.

KDE, one of the major interfaces designed to make Linux slick looking and easier to use, gets an upgrade, including the first results of work funded by the German government. Stephen Shankland worked ...

These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses.

Linux skills are in growing demand in today’s IT hiring landscape, and there are many ways to bolster those skills both online and off. Whereas many such offerings target IT professionals, however, a ...

When I first started dabbling with Linux back in the 1990s, a lot of various types of software was missing for me to be able to use it full time. Games. Video editing tools. High-quality productivity ...

What's so special about it? Simple, eBPF enables you to run programs in the Linux kernel without changing the kernel source code or adding additional modules. In effect, it acts like a lightweight, ...

Musicmatch has released the final version of its Jukebox Basic and Plus software for Linux. The software, which entered beta testing in November, lets people play and record CDs, MP3 files and other ...

There’s no doubt that demand for IT professionals with Linux skills is growing rapidly, and earlier this year I wrote about a brand-new certification program targeting newcomers to the open source ...

After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems ...

Amazon last month quietly started offering enterprise customers its own version of Linux called Linux 2. Customers can run Linux 2 in Amazon's cloud or on their own in-house servers. It marks the ...

Budgeting apps come in all sizes and shapes. Budget apps for Linux are part of a software category that has been all but abandoned. But take heart. Several Web-based solutions will more than meet your ...

A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having ...