You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows--or a CIO to know that Linux has become a major server operating system. The real question for IT managers is whether Linux is ready to ...

A Linux home office server does not make you more creative. It removes the small, constant frictions that quietly drain you.

LinuxKit provides tools for creating container-centric Linux distros, and the Moby Project helps integrate container elements Docker has released to the community Since its beginning, Docker has been ...

Sometimes, if you want something badly enough, you need to get off your lazy tuchus and make it happen yourself. For years now, I’ve been hoping and pining (and often complaining and whining) about ...

Recently I've received some mail asking for a brief explanation on how to build Linux audio applications from source code packages. Ask and ye shall receive, hence the following simple guide for the ...

Think you can make a better fast-booting, Chrome-focused OS than Google? Want to craft a custom Linux system that boots from a USB stick? SUSE Studio gives you 15 GB to do exactly that, and you do it ...

Anyone who's touched GIMP, Krita, or Inkscape knows Linux is anything but a barren wasteland. The open-source creative world is very much alive and constantly evolving. The tools exist because people ...

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...

I had a relatively quiet weekend planned, which would have been a nice change for me after all the traveling I have done recently. 'Would have been' is the key phrase here... I was updating various ...

Microsoft has long intended to make Windows the place for developers. Its intention is shown in both software and hardware as the company aims to deliver tools that make it possible to build code ...