Practical Technology

When it comes to clothes, I’m a normal guy. I just want to walk into a store, grab something that fits, buy it (What, try it on? Are you kidding!?), and head home. Well, that’s what I want to do. I’ve learned over the years that just because something should fit doesn’t mean that it [...]

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Just like with networking, I looked at my five most popular Linux stories of the last year, How to install Google’s Chrome OS Review: Barnes & Nobles’ Nook Color goes Android Tablet The Five Best Desktop Linux Distributions Five Reasons why Google’s Linux Chromebook is a Windows killer Sun CEO explicitly endorsed Java’s use in [...]

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Trying to figure out what the most popular Linux distribution is isn’t easy. We can safely say that Red Hat’s Rat Hat Enterprise Linux is almost certainly popular server Linux. You don’t close in on a billion in annual revenue without a lot of users. You could argue that it’s Android since there are over [...]

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When Novell was bought by Attachmate, people wondered if Novell/SUSE’s community Linux distribution, openSUSE, would even survive. Now, we know, openSUSE lives. The openSUSE Project has released the latest version of its popular Linux distribution openSUSE 12.1. In a statement, Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE community manager for SUSE, said, “OpenSUSE 12.1 represents more than eight months [...]

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The faster a computer goes, the more likely is to have Linux at its heart. The most recent Top500 list of supercomputers shows that, if anything, Linux is becoming even more popular at computing’s high end. In the latest Top500 Supercomputer list, you’ll find when you dig into the supercomputer statistics that Linux runs 457 [...]

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