As I've mentioned before I'm an openSUSE user, and as long as they don't make the "U" lower case again, I'll probably stick with it. When it comes to package management, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux ...

I'm interested in installing some sort of package management tool on a <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org">Linux from scratch</a> install. Either RPM, YUM, or ...

Ubuntu might well be doing the unthinkable─making its Linux distribution even more secure. That is pure, unadulterated crazy talk. How on earth does Canonical plan on making the platform that's known ...

Thanks to Linux package managers, you can easily install, update, and remove applications directly from the terminal. You ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Every popular Linux distribution ships with some sort of ...

When it comes to package management on Linux systems, two popular tools are YUM and APT. YUM, short for Yellowdog Updater Modified, is commonly used in Red Hat-based distributions like CentOS and RHEL ...

Linux's package management headaches could be solved by way of containers, but experts warn it's only half a solution Conventional wisdom holds that containers are fast on their way to remaking ...

If you started using GNU/Linux in the last 10 years or so, there’s a very good chance your first distribution was Ubuntu. But despite what you may have heard on some of the elitist Linux message ...