Clement Lefebvre, the head of the Linux Mint project, has updated us on the state of the upcoming 18.3 release. It'll come with support for the Flatpak package system and include Redshift by default.

Why it matters: Linux has become the backbone of many technology standards and software products. In the traditional desktop space, however, the open-source kernel is anything but a successful. If the ...

Once upon a time, GNOME and KDE got along like cats and dogs. That was then. This is now. At Linux Application Summit (LAS) in Barcelona, the two, along with other desktop developers, came together to ...

...smells a lot like the "Klik" package manager a few years back. Not necessarily a bad idea, but with maybe 99% of Linux systems running .deb or .rpm, and tools to allow interoperability, who really ...

Once you separate the roles of OS and personal data, the whole system starts to feel more deliberate.

The Flatpak framework for distributing Linux desktop applications is now in prodaction release, after three years of beta status. The framework, originally called XDG-app, is intended to make Linux ...