KDE Plasma 6.6.0 brings various functional improvements over last October's 6.5.0 release. The 6.6.0 changelog contains well over 2,500 lines, so although this isn't a major new version, it's clearly ...

If you like the idea of Xfce but don't like its look, this could be what you want. It's elegant in a way that makes me think it's the love child of KDE Plasma and GNOME. Desert OS brings an elegance ...

If you’re looking for a quick way to run lightweight tasks on an OS, you can go with either Workstation Pro or VirtualBox. But for anyone looking to run even remotely demanding workloads on their ...

If you need to use virtual machines on Linux, try Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is more reliable than VirtualBox. Virt-Manager is completely free and open-source. I'm a long-time supporter of VirtualBox.

Oracle has integrated experimental support for KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) into the current developer builds of VirtualBox. As can be seen from the VirtualBox issue tracker on GitHub, the new ...

PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

With Windows 10 support due to end soon, many users are looking for an alternative OS, so they don't have to purchase yet another computer. One of the best options for most people is Linux. Modern ...

VirtualBox is now available for Apple Silicon-based Macs, although with spotty x86 support. Here's how to use it. Oracle's VirtualBox emulator is a free app which allows you to run other OS'es on your ...

In the past few months, gaming handhelds have quickly progressed from an interesting new hobby to a full-blown obsession. Technically, my first handheld was the Windows-based ASUS ROG Ally, but it ...

Distrobox is a simple CLI tool that can boot up any Linux distro inside your computer. Unlike VirtualBox, Distrobox creates “overlays” that allow you to run any program from different Linux distros on ...

This document shows how to run an existing Linux/Intel application on BOINC. We'll use BOINC's Virtualbox wrapper to allow the application to run on Windows and Mac hosts as well as Linux. We'll ...