Canonical Ubuntu Linux has long been one of the most popular Linux desktop distributions. Now, its leadership is looking to its users for help to decide the default desktop applications in the next ...

Ubuntu’s “snappy” new way of packaging applications is no longer exclusive to Ubuntu. Canonical today is announcing that snapd, the tool that allows snap packages to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ...

As Ubuntu Linux continues to grow in popularity, most discussions of it tend to focus on the basics of the operating system itself, including especially details about its desktop environment and user ...

Docker’s container-style approach to distributing and running apps on any platform has been a big boost to helping patch up some of the fragmentation in the world of Linux. Now, a new package format ...

The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user’s desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on ...

When the news broke that Canonical and Microsoft were bringing Ubuntu to Windows 10, the official reason is that it was all about porting the Bash shell to Windows. I predicted that, while a Linux ...

Is the world ready for another Linux phone? Canonical shows off a version of Ubuntu on smartphones at CES 2013. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional ...

Not that I'm there very much, but now I can run Instagram, fully functional, on my desktop.

One of the most surprising new features coming to Windows 10 this summer is “Ubuntu on Windows,” which basically brings a complete Ubuntu Linux file system to Microsoft’s operating system and allows ...

Over the past few months, I've been experimenting more and more with alternatives to Windows 11, specifically trying a handful of different Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and even ...