The cat is out of the bag and Steve Ballmer's worst nightmare has just come true. Microsoft, once the most outspoken enemy of Linux and open source software, not only loves it but may have just become ...

I usually write about various issues in Windows, because there are so many and so frequent. Hardly do I run across major issues with Linux. Until the one I will mention here, which involves a very ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his Open Source Summit Europe keynote speech, MDS, Fallout, Zombieland, and Linux, by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: I have ...

Big business loves Linux for servers, and they seem to like it more than you might expect for the desktop, too. That said, enterprises still have some concerns about Linux. Here are the top five as ...

Ok, I've had far to many threads on this topic, here is the one, true final one. This is a copy of an email to the school LUG that i'm a member of.<P>All right, I'm setting up a Pentium 200 MMX w/ 64 ...

We'll come right out and say this – Linux breaks. There, we've got that off our chests. No matter how much we might like our chosen distro, there is no denying that things can go wrong, or that it ...

SabmaCry is not malware like WannaCry or Petya. Instead, it is considered a vulnerability, which presents malware with a possible avenue for attack. The vulnerability–officially called ...

Several years ago, I wrote an article on using Elmer to solve complicated physics problems. Elmer has progressed quite a bit since then, so I thought it would be worth taking a fresh look at this ...

Using Linux reminded me how Windows quietly excels at drivers, settings, apps, and gaming without demanding constant ...