Later, Ubuntu make Amazon search an optional feature, while leaving it on by default. That's not good enough for RMS. This is just like the first surveillance practice I learned about in Windows. My ...

I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing on photo and video editing, operating systems, and web browsers. Prior to my current role, I covered software and apps for ...

Free software leader Richard Stallman claims Ubuntu amounts to spyware with Amazon search integrated into the “dash” of its Unity interface. He is calling for developers to shun the open-source ...

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, possibly the most popular of all Linux distributions, is asking its users what new, proprietary programs they’d like to see as optional software in Ubuntu. Note, ...

Canonical, the company behind Linux-based open-source operating system Ubuntu, will offer a smartphone version of Ubuntu that allows a handset to function as a PC when docked, it said Wednesday. The ...

Why settle for a restrictive storage dashboard? I replaced my specialized NAS software with Ubuntu and its better at almost ...

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I traded Ubuntu's flashy interface for Debian’s "No Nonsense" philosophy, and I'm not going back.

This isn’t huge news if you’ve been keeping track of the increasing deterioration of the Ubuntu Software Center. This summer, I chronicled how Canonical was slowly letting the Ubuntu Software Center ...

Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and ...