Ever heard of Homebrew? It’s a package manager with a very unusual feature. It allows ordinary users to install packages without using sudo, and it’s available for both macOS and Linux. While the tool ...

Do you ever wonder how many thousands of packages are installed on your Linux system? And, yes, I said “thousands.” Even a fairly modest Linux system is likely to have well over a thousand packages ...

More than 200 malicious packages have been discovered infiltrating the PyPI and npm open source registries this week. These packages are largely typosquats of widely used libraries and each one of ...

With Linux gaming clearly showing it's becoming more popular, and with GOG under new ownership, there's hope yet that GOG ...

When Canonical launched Ubuntu 16.04 in April, one of the biggest changes was support for a new way to install applications. But snaps aren’t just for Ubuntu anymore. Canonical has announced that it’s ...

There's a "relentless" campaign on the Ubuntu app store, experts have warned ...

As of Canonical’s announcement, Snaps already work on Arch, Debian, and Fedora, as well as the Ubuntu-based Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu systems ...

Debian vs. Arch vs. Fedora: Which Linux distro base is right for you ...

Threat actors are typosquatting popular Go packages such as Hypert and Layout to drop malware on Linux and macOS systems. In a new typosquatting campaign, threat actors are seen using malicious Go ...

Malware has been discovered in at least three Arch Linux packages available on AUR (Arch User Repository), the official Arch Linux repository of user-submitted packages. The malicious code has been ...

Debian and Ubuntu are similar, but they're not the same Debian is more stable, and Ubuntu is easier to use. I'd only recommend one of them to users new to Linux. Ubuntu is based on Debian, and ...