The whole purpose of dual-booting is to choose which OS you want to boot into. Traditionally, this is done in a clunky way, ...

Having recently completed the second issue of Hackett and Bankwell, I have been taking inventory of my accomplishments and lessons learned. Two years ago, I was working two jobs, writing Web software ...

Ubuntu has been a phenomenon in the desktop Linux niche. But Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth, who founded the project, has his eyes on the more lucrative server market. Despite abundant ...

One of Linux's strengths as an operating system is its ability to be configured and tweaked to suit your tastes. Using the command line allows you to issue powerful commands that are unavailable to ...

Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system ...

The Xserver is the graphical software that runs on top of the Linux operating system and gives you access to the Linux graphical user interface. In some configurations, the Xserver may not be set to ...

As the Linux operating system grows in strength and popularity given its open-source nature and customizable features, Pittsburgh, Pa.-based embedded Linux service provider TimeSys Corp. is forging ...

Virtual Iron Software, a small start-up, will formally debut its virtual computing environment that enables administrators in a corporate IT shop to link Linux-based servers into a network and allow ...

A secretive Manila start-up is developing software that, it claims, will allow virtually any Windows application to run on the Linux operating system. While fuzzy on details, the company, called ...

A Linux start-up on the path to profits newsmaker Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth is ready for Ubuntu to make the leap from the desktop to the server room.