You already knew you could use a Linux box to create your own "Internet radio" station that streams MP3s onto the Internet, right? But did you know you could turn your Linux system into a real radio ...

Linux is not the same as Windows. The operating system is operated and configured differently than Windows and Windows programs cannot be started directly. With the help of virtualization or Wine, ...

With Wall Street's Linux spark rained out, advocates of the comparatively new operating system have switched to quieter but likely more effective means of conquering the world. Stephen Shankland ...

[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He buckled ...

Linux is regularly appearing on IT organizations' shortlists for Web and application deployments. It is increasingly being considered for small databases (2-4 processors). In a Lintel world, we are ...

Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

The Unix underpinnings of Mac OS make it feel familiar and accessible to programmers used to working in Unix-like environments. Apple’s Xcode IDE and other development tools are thoughtfully crafted ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Intel program to make it easier for Chinese and Indian computer makers to sell Linux on PCs is going global. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...