I've been regularly using Linux in various forms for around six years now, and in my time I've encountered my fair share of confounding and infuriating problems. I'm recounting them here to preserve ...

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 ...

The Open Source and Linux ecosystems (and the various communities within them) are, in general, pretty awesome – providing advancement and support of a wide array of software to everything from ...

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 ...

If you've used Windows for long enough, you'll know that it tends to develop "crud" over the months. It accumulates from a mixture of Windows updates, app installations, and data corruption over time.

I don’t often write about the ways Linux sucks – I usually save that for my yearly rant. The other 364.25 days of the year I prefer to focus on the things that I love about Linux. And there are plenty ...

One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.

Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite ...

Linux offers control, security, and freedom, but its learning curve, software, and hardware issues may challenge some users.