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 ...

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 ...

There's a lot of people involved.

When Canonical launched Ubuntu 16.04 in April, one of the biggest changes was support for a new way to install applications. But snaps aren’t just for Ubuntu anymore. Canonical has announced that it’s ...

The availability of an official Firefox RPM package marks a meaningful improvement for Fedora-style Linux users. It brings faster updates, upstream consistency, and more choice, all without forcing ...

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 ...

Unlock the potential of your Linux package manager and say goodbye to broken dependencies.

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 ...

More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser If you can't wait to get the bleeding-edge version of Firefox, we ...

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 ...

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 ...