Various categories of cloud services exist. This column brings light into the darkness…

There has been a whole host of innovative features being worked on in the build up to Ubuntu 10.04; some of the technical things include noticeably faster booting, other aspects include artwork and imagine redesign. Community leader Dave Walker shares his behind-the-scenes views on the latter…

The Novell software engineer, Linux Foundation board member and kernel maintainer talks technical about Linux and more…

2010 has already seen a host of activity in terms of new Open Source technology merging with cloud computing environments…

For Linux to continue to grow, its eyes need to be firmly open, and any hint of blinkers put away, argues Simon Brew…

To some people the idea of parsing text data in GNU/Linux or UNIX might not sound like a worthwhile way of doing things. However, this is the kind of administrational task that a lot of system administrators and programmers perform every day of the week. Flex and Bison have proven ...

The idea of getting an OS free is still one that amazingly few people have wrapped their heads around. Why is that? Simon Brew thinks we could make 2010 a great year for Linux simply by speaking up about its benefits – all ten million of us…

Linux System Administration Recipes is an easy-to-understand problem-solving book by an experienced system administrator, says Richard Ibbotson...

There are some technical publications which are just like some novels in that you either don't want to put them down or you don't want to stop reading them. When O'Reilly first published their GNU/Linux series of books Linux in a Nutshell and Running Linux were quickly seen to be ...

Opera started as an early version of open source development on GNU/Linux. At that time there wasn’t a business model or an international community working away on a complete operating system – just a few souls who were interested in where all of this could go…