In the following article, I refer to the GNU/Linux OS and various Free & Open-Source Software (FOSS) projects under the catch-all name of “Linux”. It scans better.

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Knowledge of command-line tools is essential to take the next step in programming/linux productivity. I think it would be useful to provide simple tutorials for these powerful tools, starting with find. I hope you agree, and would appreciate your feedback in the comments.
Tutorial
If you’re on Windows, I would recommend installing Cygwin to bring the power [...]

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I was away for a few days with my family visiting relatives, but being self-employed it can be hard to take time off, and wouldn’t you know it I had to spend a little time online checking email, finding passwords for people and occasionally just checking in on things at the house through a remote [...]

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I’m awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free and open source music player for Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago. When I first surveyed all the music players available for the girlfriend’s Linux laptop, Banshee looked the most promising, but it was still in a fairly unstable beta. Now that it’s finished, [...]

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A previous post explained how computers boot up right up to the point where the boot loader, after stuffing the kernel image into memory, is about to jump into the kernel entry point. This last post about booting takes a look at the guts of the kernel to see how an operating system starts life. [...]

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Wine has had its first non-beta stable release ever today. By complete coincidence today is the same day Firefox 3 came out.

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I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I’m working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that makes it all happen magically it wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to make this happen. A bit of searching on the net found [...]

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Fedora 9 (SULPHUR) was released this past month. As always it comes along with some new and bleeding edge features such as 2.6.25 kernel, Gnome 2.22.1, KDE 3.5.9, OpenOffice 2.4, Firefox 3 and PackageKit, a new cross-distribution software management system that has replaced pirut and pup. I’ve written this guide to help new Fedora users [...]

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The first thing I typed was
uname -a

and I didn’t know what to expect…

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This past week’s release of the Fedora 9 Linux makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don’t need Linux installed to create it, you can leave the data on your thumb drive untouched, and any files you create or settings you tweak remain in place [...]

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Red Hat’s Fedora Project launched today the new Fedora 9. The new version offers users of the Linux Operating System a whole new set of features, including the KDE 4 desktop environment which represents the system’s main characteristic.
Fedora is a Red Hat Package Manager – based, general purpose Linux distribution with several objectives, including the [...]

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The Fedora Project has released Fedora 9, a significant upgrade for the popular Linux distribution. Fedora 9 packs in a number of new features including an improved package management system, KDE 4 and more.
Perhaps the best part of Fedora 9 is the new live USB options. Fedora has always made it easy to go from [...]

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I’ve toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend Erin into sitting down at a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation [...]

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Huh?!? Apple offered OSX for free, but was declined for not being open source. Now they’re going with Windows?!? Will OLPC = “One License Per Child” now? I don’t really see the purpose of using a commercial OS, on a stripped down laptop, for third world countries, when it requires more resources and costs more. [...]

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“Adobe Air is an application platform/framework which received some buzz recently. One of the most popular Twitter clients was written using Adobe Air. Air seems to make it relatively simple to write nice looking cross platform applications. Two weeks ago, Adobe Air was released for Linux and I gave it a try on my Debian [...]

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