ZDNET's key takeaways Shuttleworth still sees hope for a Linux desktop with broad appeal.Seager stressed Canonical is ...

Red Hat, IBM and an open-source consortium are each beginning serious work to advance Linux for use on desktop computers, possibly making the OS a more serious threat to Microsoft. Stephen Shankland ...

I always like to hear the bad news before the good—so here are the five main cons of switching to Linux as a Windows user. While many Windows apps do work on Linux, some popular ones don't—and this ...

Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our ...

The new Desktop Linux Working Group, which was formally announced on Tuesday as LinuxWorld Expo gets unde rway in New York, will offer desktop usage models and recommendations to promote adoption of ...

Xfce is a unique desktop environment that offers serious flexibility and speed. Asmi Linux takes advantage of that to create a Linux distribution that, in theory, should work for anyone.

Today’s IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP. Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled ...

The annual assertion by open-source developers that the year of the Linux desktop is here may finally be more than a mere catchphrase. According to the web traffic analysis website StatCounter, Linux ...

Growing up as a kid in the 1990s was an almost magical time. We had the best game consoles, increasingly faster computers at a pace not seen before, the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web, as ...