Despite all the efforts of Canonical and Ubuntu, desktop Linux remains a non-factor n the market. Fewer than 1 in 100 desktops in the U.S. run Linux, and most are in the hands of developers, not ...

InstallAware's Application Porting Toolkit embraces the ideas introduced in the Apple Game Porting Toolkit, extending support to GNU/Linux and line of business applications; bolstered by native code, ...

The open-source WebKit HTML rendering engine is rapidly gaining ground on the Linux platform where it is increasingly being adopted by conventional desktop applications for content display. Ongoing ...

Modern package management systems have vastly decreased the challenges associated with distributing Linux applications, but there are contexts in which centralized package management is inconvenient ...

The "Year of the Desktop" has been a perennial call to arms that's sunken into a joke that's way past its expiration date. We frequently talk about the "Year of the Desktop", but we don't really talk ...