Ubuntu's supposedly secure app package format doesn't do much to improve security on the desktop, according to a well-known Linux kernel developer.

Many features are missing, and the features it has don't work reliably.

Beats dating virtualisation, but – oh – the rules

And how it could leapfrog Apple as the dev platform of choice.

The newest Windows 10 Fast Ring release, 14316, includes Ubuntu and Bash. It may not have a Linux foundation, but this is close as a Windows PC has ever come to also being a Linux computer.

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation lays out a plan to open up open-source.

You'll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10.

UbuntuBSD aims for 'Unix for human beings'.

Toolkit for wrangling networks released

For years, Defective by Design and the anti-DRM movement have been fighting media and proprietary software companies who want to weave Digital Restrictions Management into the HTML

A connection has been found between the software piracy and the adoption of Linux systems, according to a study published at the University of Oslo.

Canonical and Meizu will launch the most powerful Ubuntu phone ever, the Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition, at Mobile World Congress.

At the same time, Canonical is finally delivering on its promise to deliver one codebase for all devices. The upshot is you'll be able to use the first Ubuntu tablet, the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet, as a PC as well as a tablet.

Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition will be no exception. In fact, it will be the only compact Linux laptop using a Skylake chip from the top five PC makers in the world.

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The dmidecode command can tell you a lot more about your Linux server's hardware than you'd ever want to know

Imagine what the Linux landscape would look like without Ubuntu. Jack Wallen does just that and the outlook isn't even remotely pretty.

Not only is the “old” app store still installed by default, but its upstream replacement isn’t even available to install from the Xenial archive. That changes today, as migration to and testing of GNOME Software and its package-kit backend begins.

The fact that Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) will be powered by an LTS kernel was a no-brainer, but it’s nice to finally see it happening. The next Linux kernel in line will most likely land in about two months, so the Ubuntu team wouldn't have time to integrate it anyways.

Swapnil shares his top picks for best Linux distros of 2016, including Best-Looking Distro, Most Customizable Distro, Best Distro for Desktops, Best Distro for Privacy, and more.