Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Bob Sutor, IBM's VP of open source and standards, recently declared at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas that the open source world needs to create new and innovative user interfaces ...

Linux fans hope that the interface changes in Windows 8 will drive more users to Linux. But the open source operating system is facing interface challenges of its own. Part of the problem is that -- ...

My contention in this thread is that the user experience philosophy that underlies Linux/UNIX (the "Unix Philosophy") is close to the mirror image of the Apple design philosophy (I'll call it the ...

For years, Linux lagged in the aesthetics department, focusing more on functionality than on form. That’s no longer true. A ...

BOSTON--Open Source Development Labs is previewing work that attempts to make life easier for software companies by bridging GNOME and KDE, the two competing graphical interfaces most widely used with ...

In the intricate landscape of operating systems, two prominent players have shaped the digital realm for decades: UNIX and Linux. While these two systems might seem similar at first glance, a deeper ...

Restarting the network interface using command lines in Linux is a straight-forward procedure. While the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Linus network configuration is more graphical and visually ...

I am building an interface from oracle into an ISAM d/b that is running on unix solaris.<P>I've written a pl/sql script to extract the data from oracle and save it to my server but i need to format ...