The cat is out of the bag and Steve Ballmer's worst nightmare has just come true. Microsoft, once the most outspoken enemy of Linux and open source software, not only loves it but may have just become ...

If you've used Windows for long enough, you'll know that it tends to develop "crud" over the months. It accumulates from a ...

I usually write about various issues in Windows, because there are so many and so frequent. Hardly do I run across major issues with Linux. Until the one I will mention here, which involves a very ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the stable Linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his Open Source Summit Europe keynote speech, MDS, Fallout, Zombieland, and Linux, by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: I have ...

Is the Linux kernel a security problem? Security is an ongoing issue for all operating systems, including Linux. While Linux has generally had a good reputation compared to Windows when it comes to ...

I don’t often write about the ways Linux sucks – I usually save that for my yearly rant. The other 364.25 days of the year I prefer to focus on the things that I love about Linux. And there are plenty ...

However, NixOS has become popular, especially for its declarative configuration model, which enables reproducible systems and ...

Ok, I've had far to many threads on this topic, here is the one, true final one. This is a copy of an email to the school LUG that i'm a member of.<P>All right, I'm setting up a Pentium 200 MMX w/ 64 ...

SabmaCry is not malware like WannaCry or Petya. Instead, it is considered a vulnerability, which presents malware with a possible avenue for attack. The vulnerability–officially called ...