Back about this time of year in 2009, I wrote a post that's remained a venerable favorite. Entitled "How to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac -- It's Easy and Free," the post described in full detail how ...

In today's open source roundup: Is it worth it to install Linux on a Mac? Plus: Why Google+ failed. And the death of Google+ is coming Some Linux users have found that Apple’s Mac computers work well ...

Despite its (at the time) high-end Core i7 CPU and 32GB of RAM, Windows was frustratingly slow on it. The fan was constantly at full throttle even when the machine was idle, and it regularly failed to ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: How to install Linux on a Mac, and is it worth it to install Linux on a MacBook? There is an interesting subset of Linux users that prefer to run it on a Mac. Yes, ...

Application portability software developer CodeWeavers has ported a version of Google's Chrome Web browser to Mac OS X and Linux and made the software available for free. The company, which ...

OS X is mostly Posix compliant, and you can get a huge swath of Linux tools through Homebrew, so I don't know why you would want to. I know about the "Unix behind the nice GUI" of Os X, I've used it a ...

The Mac is a computer from Apple that runs Mac OS, and Ubuntu is a Linux operating system distribution. It's never easy to make the transition from one operating system to another. Fortunately for Mac ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Do Mac users not care about video games? Would Linux gamers play more if they could? David Rosen, whose Wolfire ...