Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell may be best known for his work on Samba, but in recent years his interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) threatens to become even more popular. On the last day of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Compiler frontend projects often track their progress against the release cycle of their target backend. In its March 2026 report, the gccrs team announced a change in project management, opting to ...

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 ...

Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee ...

OK so after problems with g++ and a recursive binary tree homework problem, it occurs to me that compiling Linux with the Microsoft or Intel compilers would yield interesting results. However, there ...