Eazel's Nautilus 1.0 file manager and system management interface promises to make that tech-heavy GNU/Linux operating system, and its complementary GNOME desktop program, accessible to the ...

Linux fans hope that the interface changes in Windows 8 will drive more users to Linux. But the open source operating system is facing interface challenges of its own. Part of the problem is that ...

The arrival of major corporate backing to boost the Gnome desktop user interface for Linux won't do much to unify support for a competing effort called KDE, several key executives say. Stephen ...

Bob Sutor of IBM thinks that Linux needs to make innovative user interfaces, pointing to Apple as proof that charting your own path is beneficial. Apple, however, has certain aspects of its ...

In most installations of Linux, though, both KDE-Qt programs and Gnome-GTK+ programs will run side-by-side. Developers writing the libraries have worked to provide similar abilities.

The latest version of Linux Mint, dubbed “Rosa,” offers long-term support and in our tests we found that it delivers an improved user experience no matter which interface is selected.

A new kind of interface is coming to Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” that will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications and recognize voice commands. Called “HUD,” or “Head-Up ...