A toolkit shaped by decades of Unix history makes technical work second nature on Linux.

All Linux distributions provide a wide range of network applications—from dæmons that provide a variety of services such as WWW, mail and SSH to client programs that access one or more of these ...

The Google-backed project to make Rust a second programming language in Linux kernel development after C just took it's next big step. Key to the project is Spain-based developer Miguel Ojeda, who's ...

Want a good-paying programming job? By ZipRecruiter's count, the average annual pay for an open-source developer in the United States is $123,411. That's not bad. The first class, Open Source Software ...

Free software licenses and operating systems like GNU/Linux make it possible to learn programming and customize state-of-the-art software in countless ways. Hacking software, however, isn't the last ...

Linux is not just for servers and hobbyists—it's also for working professionals.

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...

Many users who try Linux for the first time can get confused easily as their is no readily apparent help system available to them. As Windows programs are typically graphical in nature, it is not too ...

What do you use for an IDE in Linux if you use one? Having spent the last many years in Vis Studio I've grown rather fond of the debugger. However I'm really wanting to replace windows completely. As ...

My friend wants to start game programming in Linux (specifically Ubuntu 9.10). He already knows C++, but he wants to start making 2D and 3D applications. I told him OpenGL was the best way to go; is ...