Bob Sutor, IBM's VP of open source and standards, recently declared at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas that the open source world needs to create new and innovative user interfaces ...

Programmers have released version 1.0 of the Portland software project designed to help bridge the gap between two widely used Linux user interfaces, KDE and GNOME. Portland is overseen by the Open ...

Linux Mint beats Windows 11 in more ways than I expected, but switching still comes with real trade-offs.

Proton has released a set of updates for both its Linux GUI and Linux CLI VPN apps. Here's all you need to know.

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Linux fans hope that the interface changes in Windows 8 will drive more users to Linux. But the open source operating system is facing interface challenges of its own. Part of the problem is that -- ...

My contention in this thread is that the user experience philosophy that underlies Linux/UNIX (the "Unix Philosophy") is close to the mirror image of the Apple design ...