If you can't upgrade to Windows 11, or don't like what you've seen of it, install Linux Mint instead. Here's how to make the ...

A fter I got into the Linux ecosystem with my Raspberry Pi, I began my distro-hopping journey armed with nothing more than an ...

I dug up some notes from my own archives, and decided to post information on setting up a network bandwidth emulator with Linux. And what would anybody want to use this for? Over the years, I have ...

I have 3 comps at home. Right now one is running linux (corel), one win2k and the other win98SE. The unltimate goal is to use my linux computer as a "NAT box" from which the 2 other comps, which will ...

What a week. I’ve run into some interesting challenges setting up a new combination weblog/magazine site called VarLinux.org, a nonprofit portal dedicated to serving the VAR and channel communities.

I also don't know how to go about setting up this system with the RAID array. I want to have two mirrored drives and maybe keep the fifth one in there as a spare. I'm really unclear on how to install ...

If you've been to a Linux conference lately, you've probably seen a lot of people with wireless network cards, happily checking their e-mail while they sip refreshing beverages. The 802.11b, or “WiFi” ...

Setting up the most useful aliases on Linux is a mix of what's otherwise annoying to enter, hard to remember or typed way too often. Used frequently, bash aliases can make working on the Linux command ...

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 ...

Throughout this book, we will be using Java 1 as the language of choice for controlling our network-enabled devices. In this chapter, we will discuss getting the Java Development Kit (JDK version 1.3) ...