Bash error messages, like so many error messages, can be more cryptic than helpful. But the good news is bash has a built-in mechanism for creating your own customized error messages, and you don’t have to be an ace programmer to do it. Ubuntu and openSUSE already use this; Akkana Peck shows us how to [...]
After six years of battle, a federal jury has ruled that Novell owns the rights to the Unix operating system. In 2003, the SCO Group began campaigning to get Linux users to pay it license fees, arguing that unspecified SCO intellectual property had been improperly included in Linux. SCO filed suit against Novell in [...]
What would have happened if Pamela Jones and Groklaw had not taken an interest in this case? Would there have been any semblance of truth anywhere? I think not.
Following the recent outcry after Sony announced it will remove the "Install Other OS" option from all versions of the console, a hacker has stepped up and announced that he will find "a safe way of updating to retain OtherOS support"…
Willie Walker has posted a detailed report from the GNOME Accessibility Hackfest. "Some people have suggested that it will be OK if GNOME 3 goes out the door inaccessible, using the analogy that it took GNO…
Linux was a resounding failure on netbooks, so what makes this French start-up firm think it can succeed with an Ubuntu Linux derivative?
The file manager utility more than any other system app on any computing platform is the workhorse of daily computing tasks. Linux users have numerous file managers as choices. Depending on the distro, usually one or two default apps are preinstalled — but these might not be the best options. Thunar and Rox Filer offer [...]
At long last, after seven years SCO vs. Novell is at an end, and the jury verdict is “SCO. No. Go.” But is this really the end of the case that would not die?
Linus has released the 2.6.34-rc3 kernel prepatch. "Anyway, from a messy -rc2 we now have a -rc3 that should be in much better shape. Regressions fixed, and the ShortLog is short enough to be worth posting to lkml." Testers who are usin…
grep is a mighty search power tool that slices and dices your Linux searches as finely as you like. Today Juliet Kemp shows us how to speed up Linux searches by excluding directories in grep searches.