Every day, Linux attracts hordes of new fans in China, India, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Ukraine, Brazil, U.S., Iran and every corner of the world. It’s safe to say that Linux is a bigger hit than the iPhone with the below 21 age group outside the U.S. But the majority of Read More
Wisdom is finally dawning on American politicians that the tech sector pays better wages than Walmart or McDonald’s. So President Obama announced a $100 million TechHire initiative on March 9, 2015 to get more Americans trained for better paying technology jobs. The White House also said there were half a Read More
One major obstacle to the growth of Linux on the desktop is the lack of easy availability of pre-installed Linux PCs and laptops. You can go to Staples or Best Buy and pick up a Windows PC or Chromebook (at Best Buy only) and be out of the store in Read More
For Linux administrators, slay is a convenient tool to kill all processes belonging to a user. Slay comes in handy under various situations. For instance, as an administrator you notice a particular user running processes he is not permitted to. Or your room-mate is downloading a huge file or doing Read More
So you’ve installed CentOS on your computer and have it up and running without any issues. Good job! Now we can move to another key step in your CentOS learning adventure – Adding more repositories. For purposes of this post, it doesn’t matter whether you’ve installed the older CentOS 6.6 Read More
There has been hand-wringing in some circles that the number of Linux distros is declining. A story in Datamation notes that the number of active Linux distros has fallen from 323 in 2011 to 285 now. While diversity and choice are virtues in the software universe, I’d reckon 285 is Read More
