Posts Tagged with 'linux'

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The release of Fedora 11 promises numerous new improvements. One such improvement is an updated and more efficient package manager. How does it compare to the previous release, version 10?

Is Android an iPhone killer or is it just another failed attempt at taking Linux mainstream on a mobile phone?

Linux cracks 1% of the OS client market. But does this represent the path forward, or the beginning of the end?

Text plays a central role in the Linux operating system. Take better control of your system with a firm understanding of what text is and how best to handle, format and convert it.

Once again -- with remarkable clarity -- we peer into our crystal ball and pick which companies in and around open source are going to grab your attention in 2009.

Short on horsepower? Less is more when it's powered by Linux.

Billed as the "Microsoft Access for Linux," Kexi is an integrated data management application that allows you to easily work with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases.

For novice and intermediate administrators who may not yet be familiar with every feature of Linux, Webmin can be a huge time saver and take some of the guesswork out of error-prone tasks.

Not quite a ring of power, but Hobbit can take some of the pain out of machine, network and services management.

Because you were probably just thinking that your choices on operating systems were feeling a little limited.

Learn how to obtain, build, and use an MPI stack for Linux machines. This tutorial will take you from "hello world" to parallel matrix multiplication in a matter of minutes.

Dell's pre-installing Ubuntu. Now the question is whether the community is buying. Take our informal poll and let us know what Dell is doing right and what they still need to work on.

A number of old-fashioned tools can prevent very modern problems

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is an increasingly popular remote-access protocol. VNC is available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and others. (If you're unfamiliar with VNC or don't have VNC installed on your Linux system, see this month's "Tech Support" column on page 62 for instructions on how to install and use VNC.)