Ubuntu takes a lot of punches from time to time for its marketing and even its interface. Some feel Ubuntu is dumbed down and oversimplified, while many others think it's innovative and user-friendly.

We often hear from readers who want to track the development process of their favorite Linux distribution but don't know where to start. Budding Linux enthusiasts frequently ask how the release cycles ...

Update: Mark Shuttleworth has written an apology in his blog. Mark Shuttleworth, the wealthy patron of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, sent an e-mail to the OpenSUSE mailing list on Friday in an ...

Ubuntu 15.10. Fedora 23. openSUSE Leap 42.1. Major releases of three of the biggest, most prominent, Linux distributions. And they were all released within days of each other (a time now known as the ...

When you’re talking Linux, three big names always pop up: Canonical’s Ubuntu, Novell’s openSUSE and Red Hat’s Fedora. Ubuntu has ridden a groundswell of both consumer and commercial support to its ...

Novell released OpenSUSE 10.3 today, beating Ubuntu to its 7.10 release by 2 weeks. While I'm still downloading as I type this, the improvements to OpenSUSE look at least as extensive as those for ...

I am a huge fan of openSUSE and Arch Linux; those are the two distributions that I run on my main system. But I don’t belong to any fan-base; I also run some of the major Linux distributions on my ...

The Linux World is rarely dull, but last week was an emotional roller coaster for users of openSUSE and Ubuntu. First Novell was sold to Microsoft and Attachmate with no mention of the fate of ...

When you’re talking Linux, three big names always pop up: Canonical’s Ubuntu, Novell’s openSUSE and Red Hat’s Fedora. Ubuntu has ridden a groundswell of both consumer and commercial support to its ...

Red Hat has CentOS. Canonical has Ubuntu. Both these operating systems can be installed at no cost, and they are enterprise grade operating systems running on servers and cloud. However, SUSE doesn’t ...

2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be a major milestone release in usability ...

It’s no secret that a rather large portion of Linux development is funded by companies with a financial interest in seeing Linux be improved. (And, by “Linux,” I mean “All the various pieces and parts ...