A Linux programmer has reported a legal victory in Germany in enforcing the General Public License, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms.

Linux distros can use a type of portable application called an AppImage. Unlike regular apps, they don't install on your PC; ...

The backdoor will also attempt to camouflage itself as MsMpEng.exe process, the of Microsoft's Windows Defender antimalware and antispyware utility, while on Linux it will disguise as the Ubuntu ...

With that in mind, Google’s recent addition of the Linux Terminal app was and will continue to be a big deal. Because as much ...

Many users who try Linux for the first time can get confused easily as their is no readily apparent help system available to them. As Windows programs are typically graphical in nature, it is not ...

There is also a tool called “shim”, which some Linux distros use to work with Microsoft’s Secure Boot infrastructure. It is ...

DistroWatch reviews Uruk GNU/Linux 1.0 There are many different Linux distributions available, but few of them actually provide only free software.

Corrections: A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows An article last Sunday about the Linux operating system Ubuntu, using information from its maker, Canonical, referred erroneously to ...

Zonbu is based on Gentoo Linux and provides a very familiar looking interface, even for users who have never used Linux before. The computer is preloaded with open-source software, including ...

You can easily set up your Linux computer to have read and write access to the files housed on a nearby Windows computer. If you've used Macs in the past, the process is practically identical.