Website speed is crucial in today's digital world of lightning-fast access. Because users are impatient, a website that loads slowly risks losing visitors, conversions, and eventually money. Selecting ...

The Hackosis blog notes a contentious conversation thread between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and a programmer who finds that disabling the atime option, which writes a last-accessed time to every ...

In his article, "Linux for Suits: The No-Party System", Doc Searls makes an observation about Linux that can help us understand why we might want to tweak the performance of Linux desktops. Referring ...

At only a few years old, Clear Linux hasn’t been around long enough to start appearing in top-ten distro lists all over, but it’s an OS that offers enough uniqueness to warrant a fair look. At a basic ...

One of the best things about Linux is that you can get much more performance out of the same computer than with other operating systems. However, there always is room for improvement, and you should ...

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Desktop Linux should be shiny and fast, server Linux should be big and practical. Today's mix doesn't work -- here's the remedy My post about splitting up Linux distributions along dedicated server ...

Click to viewWhile Linux is pretty efficient with a computer's resources out of the box, there are still ways you can make it run leaner and meaner on your desktop. Using a little bit of know-how, a ...

The Linux kernel today faces an unprecedented safety crisis. Much like when Ralph Nader famously told the American public that their cars were "unsafe at any speed" back in 1965, numerous security ...

The open-source software revolution is coming to the car. Most in-vehicle infotainment systems sold today use proprietary software, with the underlying code tightly controlled by automakers and by a ...