We don't need a new desktop, Linux or otherwise. We need a new way of thinking about the desktop. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media.

At Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, Latvia, Canonical product manager Oliver Smith and engineering manager Ken VanDine introduced the Ubuntu Core Desktop. It's not shipping yet, but it's getting closer -- ...

Every year, someone jokes that this may just be the "year of the Linux desktop." It's a meme. But under the radar, enough ...

I'm always amazed how organizations equip their newest employees with the wrong electronics. Instead of expensive, high-powered laptops, give new development staff members a desktop accompanied by an ...

Pear OS has had a bit of history. It started out as a Debian-based Linux distribution called Pear OS. Then, out of nowhere, it was renamed Comice OS. The rename gremlins struck again, and it was back ...

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI firm, is adding support for Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products. Company CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the Agents ...

Remote desktop tech firm Parsec, which targets gamers and game developers, has announced $7 million in new Series A funding. The investment was led by Makers Fund and included Lerer Hipppeau, NextView ...

The more experienced the developer, the more likely they are creating cloud applications. Reducing build times (64%) is the most popular reason cloud developers are using APIs These and many other ...

Most software developers working on Windows have a pretty standard roster of tools: a code editor or IDE; Git or another version control system; a messaging client (whether Slack or one of its clones) ...

Microsoft’s newly released Windows 10 offers developers what at first blush appears to be a can’t-miss pitch: Write your app once and run it anywhere Windows exists. With Microsoft’s push toward “one ...