ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has numerous package managers.There are command-line and GUI tools for the task.Not all package ...

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 ...

Secure Boot plays an important role in keeping your Windows system safe from rootkit attacks. While traditionally, this ...

Looking for the ideal distribution for KDE Plasma? Your choice may come down to one of these two options, and the differences are subtle but significant.

Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package ...

The penetration testing and security auditing platform called Kali Linux is now available in the Windows 10 Store as a Linux environment that can be used with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Void Linux is a bit out of the ordinary. It offers an unusually interesting alternative to many of the traditional Linux distros affiliated with a larger Linux family, such as Debian or Ubuntu, or ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...