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Twenty-six years ago this month, a geeky student in Finland released the Linux kernel to the world. Today, hundreds of millions of people are using Linux. Why? That’s a question I try to answer in my new book For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution. Read More »

Programming language keeps getting fatter amid awkward version 3 splitAnalysis The PyBay 2017 conference, held in San Francisco over the weekend, began with a keynote about concurrency.… Read More »

While working on the command line in Linux, there may arise a situation where-in the requirement is to replace tabs in a file with spaces. The task isn’t difficult if the file is small, but what if the file you’re dealing with is huge, or worse, there are hundreds of files in which you have to make this change? Worry ... Read More »

?Cinnamon is an awesome desktop environment. It is part of the reason Linux Mint has become one of the most popular Linux distros available. Unlike Ubuntu’s Unity or Gnome 3 or many other desktop environments that are trying new things, Cinnamon keeps things simple. Read More »

This course walks through the creation of a 64-bit system based on the Linux kernel. Our goal is to produce a small, sleek system well-suited for hosting containers or being employed as a virtual machine. Because we don’t need every piece of functionality under the sun, we’re not going to include every piece of software you might find in a ... Read More »