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68What does HTTP mean?
by Lincoln Armstrong
The reason HTTP is necessary is becuase every different kind of communication on the Internet requires a different protocol. published 2 years ago
66Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds GNU and Linux
by Lincoln Armstrong
To describe the two men in this video as legends is to compliment the definition of the word "legend." Richard Stallman wrote the GNU Public License, which is the community foundation upon which open source... published 14 months ago
61Linux: An Achievement of Community
by Lincoln Armstrong
What Can I Do with Linux? In the earliest days of widespread computer use, most systems operated on a multi-user basis, meaning that each computer often had dozens if not hundreds of seperate computer... published 2 years ago
60What Can I Do with a Linux Computer System?
by Lincoln Armstrong
Why Linux was Built The first thing that might confuse a new Linux user is ironically one of its most powerful and important features, and that is the fact that every Linux system is a fully-functional... published 2 years ago
60How do you compile a Linux kernel?
by Lincoln Armstrong
Photo courtesy DailyinventionCompile? Compile?!?! Ahh! Technical! Geeky! Nerd! NERRRRDS!! Relax, Captain Desktop. Compiling a kernel is easy. Just be glad you missed the pre-1.0 Slackware... published 14 months ago
60Ubuntu Linux A Popular Distribution
by Lincoln Armstrong
Ubuntu Linux is one of a recent group of Linux distributions that are rapidly gaining popularity on the desktop. Linux has always been a solid alternative for a server operating system, especially for servers... published 14 months ago
60What is Linux?
by Lincoln Armstrong
Linux is an operating system developed by a large number of volunteer programmers who exchange their improvements and contributions to the system via the Internet. It is made available under a community... published 2 years ago
59Perl The Write-Only Scripting Language for UNIX Mac and PC
by Lincoln Armstrong
Programming in Perl has been described as debugging line-noise. So why is it one of the most popular scripting languages? published 16 months ago
59The Gnome Desktop for Linux
by Lincoln Armstrong
Gnome and other desktop environments like it differ from "window managers" or windowing systems in that they provide a middle-ware capacity for the display layer in an operating system. A "desktop"... published 14 months ago
56The KDE Desktop for Linux
by Lincoln Armstrong
Consistency has always been one of the primary goals of any user interface. It is one of the key elements in a well designed interface because it allows users to predict the outcome of an unfamiliar use of... published 14 months ago
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