We're now veering into the realm of universal package managers, which are named as such because they work on nearly any Linux ...

Homebrew (or “Brew”) began as a tool to ease installation on macOS, where Apple likes to lock everything down to its App Store. But does it have a place on Linux too, where package managers are ...

Package management is at the heart of every Linux system. It’s what makes installing, updating, and managing software on Linux-based distributions not just possible but streamlined and elegant. For ...

Google’s Chrome OS can now install and run Debian Linux packages with the .deb extension, at least in the Canary channel. This happens by simply double-clicking the file in your file browser. From ...

I remember how foreign it all was when I first started using Linux. Granted, back in 1997, I was only just learning how to use a Windows 95 computer. Sure, I understood the most basic terms -- RAM, ...

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.