A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having ...

Cmus is my favorite music player on Linux. Here's how I turned set up this TUI app on my Android phone.

Reaper is a powerful, versatile digital audio workstation for editing music, podcasts, or other audio projects. I’ve used it to edit and mix every single episode of the LPX podcast and Loving Project ...

The Linux kernel is free and open-source software, aka “FOSS”. This means that anybody can use the kernel without paying a fee, and that anybody can view the source code, search it for bugs and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. A few weeks ago I heard about a variant of Ubuntu called Ubuntu ...

The Linux jukebox media software, Banshee, has reached stable 1.0 status. Banshee often takes a backseat to Amarok in the Linux music player world, but if you're using GNOME the latest version of ...

Everything is a service now. Whether it's music streaming (Spotify and Google Music), productivity (using Microsoft Office online) or even the upcoming Stadia game streaming service, companies are ...

I haven't missed Windows at all.

May 2026 delivered a sizeable set of Linux software updates, including the set I've rounded up for your reading pleasure in ...

Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who ...

As promised, the second part of this series presents still more commercially available music and sound software for Linux. Come see (and hear) what your money will buy... I profiled Studio To Go! 1.50 ...