In response to the August 16 Perspectives column by Charles Cooper, "Can Linux duck the Redmond death ray?": I read your comments about Linux regularly, and I enjoy them but I am not buying the ...

This post covers some well-known Linux commands that, when used with particular options and arguments, can save you some time or ensure that what you are doing is what you intended. The first “trick” ...

It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers. Today, 100 new ones join each second. And running deep within the silicon souls of most of these machines is the work of a technical ...

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...

An argument between software engineers working for open source distributor Red Hat Inc. and Linux founder Linus Torvalds embodies the tension between pragmatists and idealists that exists in almost ...

In the latest chapter of the Linux-versus-Microsoft total cost of ownership debate, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and Levanta this week released a new report to bolster the pro-Linux argument. A ...