Often times when something just works, we tend to take it for granted. I think software package management in Linux is one of those things. It just works. Time and time again I have to help people ...

There are many reasons to switch to Linux, such as security, free software, and data protection. We compare the distributions ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Every popular Linux distribution ships with some sort of ...

When it comes to package management on Linux systems, two popular tools are YUM and APT. YUM, short for Yellowdog Updater Modified, is commonly used in Red Hat-based distributions like CentOS and RHEL ...

F reeBSD, the open-source operating system, just released a new major update. FreeBSD 15 includes overhauled package ...

As I've mentioned before I'm an openSUSE user, and as long as they don't make the "U" lower case again, I'll probably stick with it. When it comes to package management, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux ...

Keep your Linux operating system and the software you run on it fully up to date. You don’t have to worry about remembering to perform patching if you take on one of these automated systems. Automated ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Novell Inc. announced on Monday at its BrainShare ...

Learn how Nix Darwin reads flake configs to define dependencies and outputs, giving you repeatable macOS installs with fewer ...

If you started using GNU/Linux in the last 10 years or so, there’s a very good chance your first distribution was Ubuntu. But despite what you may have heard on some of the elitist Linux message ...