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The LibreOffice developers are making some changes, and they are introducing GTK3 native menus for the office suite. It's safe to say that LibreOffice is the most used office suite on the Linux platform, and that means that it should be full GTK3 compatible, but that's not the case. Developers are only now making some changes that would make office suite much better looking in most Linux operating systems.

Raspberry Pi 3 is now available for purchase, and this new single board mini-PC aims to take the world by storm with some amazing hardware specs at the same $35 (€32) price.

Netrunner Rolling is a Linux distribution based on Manjaro that features KDE as the default desktop environment, and a new version has been released and is now available for download.

With the recent discussion on the official support for ZFS in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, another interesting piece of information has come to light. Debian developers and maintainers have just realized that they were shipping the ISO of the distribution with the a pre-compiled non-free Nvidia kernel module, which technically should be a violation of the Linux kernel.

Intel demoed at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona an Android phone that turns into a desktop once it’s connected via HDMI to a monitor. It turns out that not only Canonical and Microsoft are interested in this concept, and now even Intel is working on a similar project.

Canonical and MediaTek have entered into a partnership, and they want to build multi-purpose, future-proofed home gateways and premium routers.

Dell has announced that the Embedded Box PC 3000 Series and 5000 Series, furthering the partnership with Canonical by providing this hardware with Ubuntu.

The Linux Mint forum database was being sold on January 16, a full month before the users were made aware of a breach.

A new Ubuntu OTA update is on its way and it should land tomorrow. Here are the fixes and improvements that will be released to the public.

The Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona is not only about IoT, Ubuntu Touch or the cloud for Canonical. It's also about a small little robot powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core that seems to be gathering a lot of attention.

The leader of the Android-x86 project has just announced that he has entered a partnership with Jide Technology, the creators of the already famous Remix OS.

A connection has been found between the software piracy and the adoption of Linux systems, according to a study published at the University of Oslo.

The Linux Mint bad news keeps on coming. After a website hack that tricked users into downloading a fake Linux Mint ISO with a backdoor, now the developers are also warning users to change their passwords for the forums.

Canonical welcomed today a couple of new community Ubuntu ports for Sony Xperia Z1 and OnePlus One.

Canonical announced that support for the ZFS (Z File System) will be available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but a lot of users have been asking about a possible license conflict. Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland explained why that’s not a problem.

Ubuntu developers are trying to prepare the maintainers of the packages in the official repositories for the switch to GNOME Software.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) is going to integrate full support in Mir for the latest Vulkan 1.0 specifications.

Canonical and Meizu have just revealed that Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition will be available for pre-order during Mobile World Congress 2016.

The Khronos Group just announced that the Vulkan 1.0 open standard API specifications have been made available, along with the Vulkan SDK for Windows and Linux from LunarG.

The recent news of the Opera buyout by a Chinese consortium has left many users wondering what's going to happen next. The company reached out to explain to users that nothing will change with the Norwegian Internet browser and services.