Love to customize your Linux desktop? This lightweight distro is great fun for newbies and experts ...

Customizability has always been one of Linux’s best defining features, and the newly released Ubuntu Linux 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” is no exception. I’ve already written about a few different ways to ...

Tired of Windows? Sick of paying big money for Macs? Want a better, more secure desktop? Give Linux a try. Read now Ubuntu is an important operating system on everything from telecom's 5G clouds to ...

Ubuntu Cinnamon is a brand new “remix” project that incorporates the Cinnamon Desktop Environment into Ubuntu. It’s not an official “flavor” of Ubuntu, but the developers are hoping that — like Ubuntu ...

The past couple months, I've been showing how to create your very own customized Ubuntu live CD. In “Customizing Linux Live CDs, Part I” (LJ, May 2008), I provided a basic procedure for mounting an ...

You'll first need to prepare Ubuntu by installing GNOME Extensions, GNOME Tweaks, and GIT. Next, you install the necessary themes, fonts, icon-packs, and extensions ...

Unlike Windows and OS X, Linux allows you to fully customize not only the look and feel of your desktop, but also its functionality and settings, thanks to a host of desktop environments it offers.

While test-driving the new Gnome 2.28 desktop, I was surprised to see that among the default backgrounds, there was a "Cosmos" slide-show of several cosmic pictures of space that regularly transition ...

Canonical has created an optimized desktop image of the Ubuntu 19.04 Linux distribution that is now included as an available virtual machine in the Hyper-V quick create gallery. Hyper-V Manager ...

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) today in Florida, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that the Unity shell will become Ubuntu’s default user interface across both the desktop and netbook ...