Modern all-purpose Linux distributions require a lot of RAM and disk space. What’s going on, is it lard? Functionality? Have the bytes themselves gotten porky? Paul Rubens investigates the Case of the Portly Linux.
Are you interested in a word processing environment that’s more or less the same across multiple PC desktop and mobile platforms–a Linux notebook and a Windows CE device, let’s say, or a Macintosh PC, a Windows XP netbook, and an Android phone? How about a word processor that comes with abundant tech support, or one [...]
Mozilla’s popular Firefox web browser is expected to reach its one billionth download milestone today…
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented simulation of a large-scale botnet after booting up 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They now are waiting for completion of a new, faster and more capable supercomputer at the Livermore, Calif., lab, on which they hope to run 10 million kernels [...]
Ubuntu is about as easy to use Linux distribution as you’ll ever find. But, if you’re a small business owner wouldn’t it be nice to have affordable customer service for those problems that aren’t easy to fix?
The headline says “Why Code For Free”, but it’s really more complicated than that because there are many FOSS developers who are paid to work on FOSS projects. In this final part of our series, more developers speak on the rewards of being part of the FOSS community.
The headline says “Why Code For Free”, but it’s really more complicated than that because there are many FOSS developers who are paid to work on FOSS projects. In this final part of our series, more developers speak on the rewards of being part of the FOSS community.
Name-calling and accusations are nothing new on the Linux blogs, but lately the mud-slinging has become so intense that it seems fair to say a good cleaning is in order, for the walls and floors are covered. Much of the recent ferocity has sprung up over the seemingly never-ending Mono debate, which we here at [...]
GNU Emacs 23.1 has been released, which includes new Unicode and font support.
Novell has launched a new Web service called SUSE Studio that simplifies the process of building Linux-based software appliances. It provides a convenient interface for creating custom versions of Novell’s SUSE Linux distribution with specialized configurations.