If you are a user of a Linux distribution that takes advantage of Launchpad’s Personal Package Archive, then you know how easy that tool can be for adding those hard to find applications pre-packaged for your system. Once you get used to PPAs, it’s fairly easy to depend upon those repositories. But there is sometimes [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source

It feels strange that Microsoft never managed to integrate a package manager into the Windows operating system. Npackd is a free Windows package manager that aids the user in discovering, installing, updating and uninstalling applications. Npackd, which is pronounced unpacked, queries a server on the Internet on startup to retrieve the latest application database. It [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I have been covering the Linux operating system for a long time now. There are moments when I take it for granted that everyone knows the basic terminology surrounding this operating system. Because this is obviously not the case, I thought it might be a good time to stop and explain some of the terms [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Knowledge, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems