Linux developers are going to have more than one choice for building secure, cross-distribution applications. Ubuntu’s “snap” applications recently went cross-platform, having been ported to other ...

How to convert all your Snap packages to Flatpak on Ubuntu with Unsnap Your email has been sent For anyone who wants to dump Snap in favor of Flatpak, a new tool has surfaced to make this process ...

Bazaar is a free tool for managing Flatpak apps. It can be installed on any Linux distro with the flatpak command. It's also free to use and simplifies working with Flatpak apps. I install a lot of ...

...smells a lot like the "Klik" package manager a few years back. Not necessarily a bad idea, but with maybe 99% of Linux systems running .deb or .rpm, and tools to allow interoperability, who really ...

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 ...

Flatpak apps are gaining serious popularity on Linux distributions but managing the permissions of those apps can be a challenge. But with this handy GUI tool, those permissions are simple to deal ...

Why it matters: Linux has become the backbone of many technology standards and software products. In the traditional desktop space, however, the open-source kernel is anything but a successful. If the ...

With November fast approaching, the Linux Mint team is getting ready to push out version 18.3, the final release before Linux Mint 19. For a point release, it’s got some pretty nice changes included ...