Its users can continue using AUR if they like.

If you’ve ever used a modern Linux distribution, you’ve likely experienced the convenience of installing and updating software with a single command. Package managers, the tools behind this ease of ...

Ubuntu is about to undergo a dramatic overhaul. No, I don’t mean the huge shift to a converged Unity 8 desktop with the Mir display server, although that’s also coming. Ubuntu is going to move past ...

I tried the latest MX Linux version on my PC, and it made the system look and feel like new ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While most distros feel like a fixed menu, Fedora quietly transformed itself into the all-you-can-eat buffet of Linux.

Packagist packages hid malicious package.json scripts, enabling Linux binary execution during installs and workflows.