With Windows 8 pushing a “touch-first” desktop interface—Microsoft’s words, not ours—and with Valve’s Steam on Linux beginning to bring much-needed games and popular attention to the oft-overlooked ...

Now we have version 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and even though I’m still only running a Release Candidate, installation and getting up and running with Ubuntu has never been easier. Wubi, a free open source ...

Thanks to a wonderful new open source tool called Wubi, downloading and installing the latest version of Ubuntu Linux is now a snap for Windows users. It's a pity the Ubuntu development team still ...