Linux developers are rapidly trying to make the software as user-friendly as possible and they continually create new interfaces and functionalities. Their goal is make the programs as appealing to desktop users as they are to major corporations and agencies who depend on Linux for its power and reliability. Linux’s ability to be improved is […]
The concept of open source programming has been around for many years-its roots stem from universities that needed to be able to share information as well as follow students and developers to adapt programs to meet their needs. In 1984, Richard Stallman, a researcher at the MIT AI Lab, started a project he called GNU […]
Linux is an operating system that can be downloaded free and “belongs” to the entire community of developers, not one corporate entity. In other words, anyone from a professional software developers to a hobbyist computer hackers can access and make changes to the Linux kernel-all the information about Linux is open and available to everyone. […]
Linux is no longer only for hobbyist hackers who dig so deep into computer code that it gets caught under their fingernails like gardening soil. Instead, with the success of a growing number of companies like Red Hat that develop and package open source programs, Linux has found its way onto the servers and desktop […]