David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Ever been too scared to install a program that wasn’t an RPM or DEB? In Windows, installing software is a matter of clicks. In Linux, however, there are quite a few ways to skin the cat. Depending on ...

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

I'm running a RH8 machine, it's got libgd, libpng, and zlib installed (verified with rpm -q). I'm trying to compile ntop, which depends on all three of these packages. According to the ntop readme, I ...

Many of the best-organised software projects around the world are the legions of free and open source offerings. This is in part due to one reason, namely the tight use of source code control and ...

Testing is an integral and important part of any software development cycle, open or closed, and Linux kernel is no exception to that. Developer testing, integration testing, regression, and stress ...