"...The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) was awarded patents relating to several widely-used IEEE wireless standards (such as 802.11 which is used in wireless networking) back in 1996, after which it began to negotiate royalties with companies that had embraced the new technology..." via http://w

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Well that is OK then. No sooner has Mozilla updated Firefox to 3.0.2 and broken my saved passwords so they cannot be accessed, nor can I create new ones, than it announces it is 'working real hard' to get Firefox 3.0.3 out to fix the mess.

Our writer subjects Linux to the most exacting useability test yet devised: his girlfriend

I recently began charting the freefall of the Gentoo Linux distribution. The project peaked in 2003 but has been in steady decline since Daniel Robbins got up from the captains chair.

Inotify is a Linux® feature that monitors file system operations, such as read, write, and create. Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job. Learn how to integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of command-line tools you can use to further automate system administration.

The netbook craze has created a lot of netbooks that have Windows and Linux versions. This, naturally, creates something or a pricing issue, since Linux is free and Windows is not. The most obvious option is to make the Linux one cheaper, but that is not what Asus, and possibly others, have decided to do.

Novell, a victim of Microsoft FUD, has become Microsoft's FUD partner