Microsoft’s current offering is called Voice Access, which is replacing the Windows Speech Recognition tool that Microsoft ...

The default Ubuntu installation packages the sleek, minimal Gnome desktop with Firefox and a handful of basic tools, and then leaves the rest to you. That freedom (and Linux in general) might seem ...

It's bound to roil open source advocates, but some Ubuntu leaders are asking the community which third-party, proprietary applications should be available for easy installation. You can weigh in on ...

The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user’s desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on ...

Canonical Ubuntu Linux has long been one of the most popular Linux desktop distributions. Now, its leadership is looking to its users for help to decide the default desktop applications in the next ...

Ubuntu’s “snappy” new way of packaging applications is no longer exclusive to Ubuntu. Canonical today is announcing that snapd, the tool that allows snap packages to be installed on Ubuntu, has been ...

After Microsoft announced that Ubuntu would be coming to the Windows Store, at its Build 2017 developer conference back in May, the 20170619.1 build of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is now available there. Users ...

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