In today's open source roundup: Is OS X a better choice than Linux? Plus: Mozilla blocks Flash in Firefox. And how to disable Flash in Chrome, Safari and Firefox OS X and Linux users share a similar ...

Linux to GPLv3: A practical matter not a legal one If Linus Torvalds and the other key kernel developers were to back a shift to GPLv3, and if there were reasonable legal air cover from respected open ...

After years of using Windows, I decided to give Linux a try. I knew it wasn't an easy path and that there would be a learning ...

For a limited time, the Practical Linux Security Cookbook by Packt is available for free. This book provides code-intensive discussions with detailed recipes that help you to create and administer a ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft will finally end support for one of its most successful operating systems, the 13-year-old Windows XP. This means that there will no longer be any official security updates and ...

I'm sure many of you have at least heard of Tiny Core Linux—legends of how small it is, how little it takes it to run a system with it and even now how it's been ported to run on Raspberry Pi. It's an ...

Here at Linux Journal we've been deeply involved in the Linux community ever since Phil Hughes started the magazine back in 1994 when Linux was turning 1.0. Through that whole time, we've served two ...

This goes back to my ability to jump on ideas immediately. I don't want to break up my flow by shutting down Windows, going to grub and starting up Linux. By the time I can launch a terminal on the ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...