As more and more companies turn to Linux for mission-critical operations, making sure IT staff have the necessary skills is becoming more important than ever. That’s a significant challenge, because ...

If you’ve been meaning to try out Linux but felt too overwhelmed, we’ve got all the info you need to get started. Here are our five lessons on getting a working Linux partition up and running. Lesson ...

Most Linux tutorials focus on working with an existing Linux distribution with some name-brand recognition: Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, and so on. LFS assumes that the user doesn’t simply want to ...

Welcome back as we wrap up the first week of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux. I guess it says something about the complexity of switching operating systems as opposed to switching office productivity suites ...

One of the four companies to win prominence selling the Linux operating system now is trying to direct attention to higher-level software that runs on many different computers.

SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft has spent a lot of time attacking Linux recently, but the company has learned and benefited from the rival operating system. Linux's success in low-end servers led the company ...

Windows may boast the lion’s share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various ...

[In June 2015, I gave a commencement address to the graduating class of High Mowing School in New Hampshire. I wrote many drafts for the talk, all toward extemporizing the final thing. My experience ...

On Monday, August 26th, Caldera, now SCO Group, rolled out its new (actually, old) name at the company's GEOForum show in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Jeff Gerhardt gave us two reports from the show itself.