David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Ever been too scared to install a program that wasn’t an RPM or DEB? In Windows, installing software is a matter of clicks. In Linux, however, there are quite a few ways to skin the cat. Depending on ...

I'm running a RH8 machine, it's got libgd, libpng, and zlib installed (verified with rpm -q). I'm trying to compile ntop, which depends on all three of these packages. According to the ntop readme, I ...

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

OK so after problems with g++ and a recursive binary tree homework problem, it occurs to me that compiling Linux with the Microsoft or Intel compilers would yield interesting results. However, there ...