Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, ...

Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package ...

The headless package is available on GitHub, promoting transparency across the open-source community. Here's all you need to know.

If you’ve ever used a modern Linux distribution, you’ve likely experienced the convenience of installing and updating software with a single command. Package managers, the tools behind this ease of ...

Linux has numerous package managers. There are command-line and GUI tools for the task. Not all package managers are created equal. When I first started using Linux, the package manager was called ...

Documentation master Christian Brauner got fed up in 2024, stating "years of writing Groff have made me tired," and he ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

The Arch Linux team has warned users for years about verifying each AUR package before installing it. The Arch Linux team is the second Linux distro that has found malware on its user-submitted ...

Void Linux is a bit out of the ordinary. It offers an unusually interesting alternative to many of the traditional Linux distros affiliated with a larger Linux family, such as Debian or Ubuntu, or ...

There are a few different reasons why the average person — as opposed to an enthusiast tinkerer — might want to try out one of the many available flavors of free Linux-based operating systems. If ...

After years of hinting, Nvidia announced yesterday that it would be open-sourcing part of its Linux GPU driver, as both Intel and AMD have done for years now. Previously, Linux users who wanted to ...

Linux users are more likely than most to be familiar with Chromium, Google’s the free and open source web project that serves as the basis for their wildly popular Chrome. Since the project’s ...