The start-up that was going to make Linux dead-easy is dead. Eazel closed its doors this week after 16 months of developing a Linux interface for the consumer market. The company had spent the last ...

It wasn’t long ago that we looked at easily creating Docker containers from the command line so you could just easily spin up a virtual environment for development. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do ...

Microsoft, for all its faults, has significantly lowered the bar to IT development, offering tools like Visual Studio that help make average developers more productive. Linux, on the contrary, has ...

Modern Linux distros have gotten easier to install. You're most likely to succeed with standard x86-based hardware. Be prepared to copy and paste lots of commands into a terminal window. Switching to ...

Elementary OS vs. Linux Mint: I compared my once favorite distro to the Windows alternative ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

When netbooks were first announced to the world there was significant speculation that these would be fertile ground for Linux growth. In part that was because the Asus EEE, one of the first netbooks, ...

Linux Mint isn’t chasing touch interfaces, rethinking the way we use the desktop, or enacting any other grand experiment. It’s just a polished, modern Linux desktop system—and that’s why people love ...