For my operating systems computer science class we HAVE to use a C++ compiler in unix. Since I live off campus I would really rather set up my own linux box to do the work. I've never used unix/linux ...

From just learning to code to seasoned developers, these are your distros of choice.

Follow along with this step-by-step guide to creating your own distribution. In an article in the June 2018 issue of LJ, I introduced a basic recipe for building your own minimal Linux-based ...

Running Microsoft Windows or Apple’s Mac OS X gives users about the same amount of flexibility as was offered to early car buyers. They could drive any kind of car they wanted, as long as it was a ...

A lot of that stuff will probably be worked out in the next year or so. At one time, daily use of any Linux distro looked like that. Getting anything going, ever, was a constant struggle. Once you had ...

Intel's Clear Linux Project has been on my radar for months, mainly because of its sheer dominance over traditional Linux distributions -- and often Windows -- when it comes to performance. From time ...

If you’ve ever used a modern Linux distribution, you’ve likely experienced the convenience of installing and updating software with a single command. Package managers, the tools behind this ease of ...

At only a few years old, Clear Linux hasn’t been around long enough to start appearing in top-ten distro lists all over, but it’s an OS that offers enough uniqueness to warrant a fair look. At a basic ...