Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers ...

A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having ...

Five years ago, the only engineering or computer science majors setting their sights on a career in writing software code for an open source company were the most hardcore of computer nerds. That was ...

Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments. Developing scripts to handle your more complicated ...

Part 1 of this two-part series points to some excellent resources for users who are considering a switch to Linux but would like some advice from experts before getting their feet wet. With more than ...

While Ubuntu and Red Hat grabbed most of the Linux headlines last year, Linux Mint, once the darling of the tech press, had a relatively quiet year. Perhaps that’s understandable with IBM buying Red ...

Welcome to the latest edition of Ask the Geek. As I mentioned in my last column, this week we are going to start a series on using the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), which can introduce a ...