Once installed, press Ctrl+Space to launch Ulauncher and start searching through your list of installed apps or even run web ...

Pear OS has had a bit of history. It started out as a Debian-based Linux distribution called Pear OS. Then, out of nowhere, it was renamed Comice OS. The rename gremlins struck again, and it was back ...

Now, Cinnamon is the flagship desktop environment of Linux Mint, which is generally the best distro for experiencing it.

People don’t like change. One of the things that some people get hung up on is the look and feel of the desktop. More precisely, some Windows users who look at Ubuntu Linux get hung up on how it doesn ...

After using Linux for nearly 30 years, I've created a list of the best Linux distributions I've used since the beginning. Here they are.

Ok, so I'm an old unix guy and I finally got a Mac (MDD G4). I'm having some issues with the interface, but I'm slugging through it and starting to like it.<BR><BR>I have my linux machine beside my ...

I’ve complained about this before on these forums: one thing that keeps me from adopting Linux on the desktop is that under Linux, keyboards are handled more or less like under Windows. While I spent ...

Back in 1991, a brilliant and determined 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Helsinki had an idea. From what I understand, Linus Torvalds was unhappy with MS-DOS, and since he ...

Looks like Novell is getting serious about this Linux thing, doesn’t it? I ended the last issue by saying I had picked up some strong whiffs of an acquisition by Novell of a Linux vendor. Evidently, ...