Sometimes, if you want something badly enough, you need to get off your lazy tuchus and make it happen yourself. For years now, I’ve been hoping and pining (and often complaining and whining) about ...

Select only computer hardware that is supported by the Linux applications you need; Give your customers an "approved" list of expansion peripherals, such as printers, scanners, and cameras; Tell your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. I’m a Linux advocate, but I’m also a realist. Anyone who tells you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following article presents a status report on the development of five of the most active notation software projects for Linux. Most of them are works in progress, but all are well along on their ...

Recently, I have been spending quite a bit of time working with the Windows Subsystem for Linux in relation to a project that I have been working on. Although I have occasionally dabbled in Linux, it ...

This discussion will pick up where we left off in Part 1 of this series to describe the tools and methods that are necessary to deploy a Yocto Project Build Environment targeting the Raspberry Pi ...

Welcome to our new series on how to build your own Linux-based network appliance. If you’re a small business owner with a shared Internet connection and some networked PCs, this is just what you need ...