Yes, Microsoft is going to enable users to run Bash natively on Windows 10, and yes Ubuntu on the next major Windows 10 update, Redstone. How the heck did they do that? First, Ubuntu parent company ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 dominated countless headlines in the weeks leading up to its launch late last month, but October saw the debut of another major operating system as well. Canonical’s Ubuntu 12.10 ...

Microsoft on Wednesday unwrapped a major open source coup forCanonical when it announced that Ubuntu Linux will be able to run on Windows 10. Kevin Gallo, Microsoft’s director of Windows developer ...

With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first” desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked ...

Canonical has come up with a replacement for the global menu bar, one of the most notable features of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop and also one of its most problematic.The global menu bar places application ...

Interested in running Linux on Windows 10 with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), but nervous about it being both a beta and only available in Windows 10 developer mode? Your worries are over. In the ...

Dual booting is a great way to get the best of both worlds of Windows and Linux. It’s relatively straightforward to install the two operating systems alongside each other, and it's also a great ...