The Linux platform is home to a vast and highly diverse ecosystem of open source software applications. These programs are developed through a collaborative process that often relies heavily on the ...

From VR to hot tea, these apps cover some of my more niche interests.

Worried that you won’t have enough applications to choose from when you switch to Linux on the desktop? If all you need are mainstream business apps, don’t sweat it Linux is commonly referred to as an ...

Use Playerctl, Python, and Conky timer to create a 'now playing' Spotify desktop widget.

Taiwanese electronics company First International Computer Inc. (FIC) hopes to replicate the open nature of the PC in mobile phones with the debut of a smartphone running an open Linux-based mobile ...

The open-source WebKit HTML rendering engine is rapidly gaining ground on the Linux platform where it is increasingly being adopted by conventional desktop applications for content display. Ongoing ...

More people use Linux than they realize because even Smart TVs and the Steam Deck run on a version of Linux, but making the switch on a PC can be scary.

InstallAware's Application Porting Toolkit embraces the ideas introduced in the Apple Game Porting Toolkit, extending support to GNU/Linux and line of business applications; bolstered by native code, ...

Recently helping with Windows 7 migrations, I've taken a look at "XP Mode" in Windows 7. It was hyped up by everybody as offering backwards compatibility in Windows 7. Much to my surprise when I got ...

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...

Users are now able to run most of the applications in Office XP on Linux, following the release of commercial software that allows the package to run on the open-source operating system. CodeWeavers' ...