The demise of the software industry is being greatly exaggerated.

Quick, hand me the open source “clue stick.”

Project planning Penguinistas should take a look at GanttProject.

The best defense is a good offense: the best deterrence to a patent threat is a robust patent portfolio that a potentially threatening party may infringe.

If you need to monitor and manage such a configuration, try syslog-ng (syslog, next generation), a drop-in replacement for syslogd. syslog-ng provides more sophisticated log management capabilities and enables log transfers over the Internet.

To date, the Message Passing Interface has been instrumental in simplifying application development for clusters. But as clusters change to embrace multiple cores, multiple platforms, and multiple advanced interconnects, MPI is no longer adequate. What can replace it? Donald Becker asks, “How about Unix? ”

Getting the most out of your cluster is always important. But how exactly is that done? Do you really need to dissect your code and analyze every instruction to get optimal performance? Do you need to build custom kernels? Not necessarily. By testing some basic assumptions, you may be able to eke ten-node performance out of an eight-node cluster. Here’s how.

Multiple threads of execution need to be synchronized to avoid data corruption and even system freezes.

How to get the most out of your hard disks.

Penguinistas of the World, Unite! And how to read a directory.

The Template Toolkit does not support any profiling tools “out of the box.” However, that didn’t stop Randal from getting the numbers — and the performance boost — he needed.

Move your “Office” to the web, a terabyte in a toaster, and a friendly Black Dog.

vshnu is a “visual shell” that runs in a terminal window, combining navigation shortcuts with a standard shell and the power of Perl.

“Linux laptop” should not be an oxymoron.

Learn how to setup a Linux cluster without touching the machines’ installed operating system.