Today we’re going to look at Linux. Not as a competitor to Windows and not as a repository of proprietary code (as SCO would have you believe), but as an alternative operating system that might have a ...

Gartner analysts are running about in Las Vegas, hair on fire, shouting that Windows is collapsing. Or about to collapse. Or something. This is easy to get snarky about, but there is a real issue here ...

No one ever looks at checksums, claims the attacker behind the Linux Mint breach. That needs to change. The attack against Linux Mint’s website, where users were tricked into downloading a modified ...

The other day in the Linux Journal IRC room (#linuxjournal on Freenode), I was whining to the channel about no-ip.com deleting my account without warning. My home IP address hadn't changed in a couple ...

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from chapter 11, "Keeping Your Data Private", of Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux, published August 2005 by Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-187284-2. In Part 1 ...

Aug. 19, 2002 – A small item in the business section of Monday’s New York Times said Sun Microsystems plans to introduce a server that will feature an Intel processor and the Linux operating system.