Ubuntu uses GNOME, which is famous (or infamous) for its minimal and often bare-bones desktop environment. Thankfully, Ubuntu ...

Ubuntu is by far the most mainstream Linux distro out there, and that’s both its biggest strength and its biggest weakness.

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...