Practical Technology

Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, has been keeping a low profile lately. But at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Japan, Torvalds and his good friend Dirk Hohndel, the head of Verizon open source, talked about the current state of Linux.…Read More

RICHMOND, Va. — Anyone with a tech clue can patch a Linux server. But, patching thousands of them without any downtime, that’s not easy. At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only conference of top Linux kernel developers earlier this month,…Read More

ZDNET’s key takeaways Pros: Easy to set up, and powerful tools for analyzing your finances and building a budget. Cons: The most expensive personal financial program. I didn’t plan on spending my Thanksgiving week looking at personal finance…Read More

Opinion Way back when we loaded software with punch cards and magnetic tape, all programs were “free software” and “open source.” Then along came proprietary software, and everything changed. But programmers rebelled and developed the first formal…Read More

My first computer was an IBM 360 mainframe. To use it, I relied on a 3270 terminal. From there, I quickly moved on to a PDP-11 minicomputer running Unix — where my interface was a VT-102 terminal. In those days, all the computing power was remote.…Read More

Like many people who play at programming, and more importantly, the ones who actually do it for a living, I use a Linux desktop. Now, well, I can’t do any better than to quote from Bluefin‘s creator, Jorge Casto, a top open source and Linux community…Read More