David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Credit: Ian Noble; Modified by IDG Comm. Did you know that you can ask your Linux system to tell you what upgrades are available for the packages installed on it? You might be surprised by how many ...

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 ...

Linux containers replaced most of my Proxmox VMs, cutting memory use, speeding up restarts, and making a dozen services ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps of installing the macOS command line package manager Homebrew on Linux. Homebrew is a command line package manager for macOS that is similar to apt-get or dnf.

The beginner Linux choice that decides whether you stay or crawl back to Windows.

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 ...

Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

The penetration testing and security auditing platform called Kali Linux is now available in the Windows 10 Store as a Linux environment that can be used with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).