A recent poll of European Union local governments shows increasing adoption of free and open source software. Indeed, uptake of the Penguin is happening everywhere, albeit quietly.

Fight the spread of spyware and malware with CLAMAV and AVG Free, two cost-free Linux antivirus solutions.

2006 may be the year that the United States’s patent system rights some of its many wrongs. One can only hope.

The use of standard kernel helper facilities simplifies your code, weeds out redundancies from the kernel, and helps long-term maintenance. And since the helpers are bug-free and optimized, you inherit those benefits for free.

Learn how to implement a RAID configuration.

Keeping files in the cryptoloop.

Most developers use the Template Toolkit (TT) to generate dynamic web pages based on input parameters, but TT can help static web sites as well. Let’s take a look at a typical small, static website and how TT can help things.

Your screen is ringing, playing with an iPod, and the mother of all hardware hacks.

What’s new with tar since it was written eons ago? A lot. Here’s the sixth of a series about new features of old utilities.

MySQL AB rakes in the cash, The Apache Foundation updates its namesake server, and Fedora Core 5 makes its debut.