Many of the best-organised software projects around the world are the legions of free and open source offerings. This is in part due to one reason, namely the tight use of source code control and ...

If you're trying out Linux—or completely switching over to it—after getting used to Windows or macOS, you're going to have to familiarize yourself with how software gets installed on this open ...

First and foremost: the days of having to build and compile software using a command line just to install it on Linux are long gone. That's still an option, sure, but if that's something you've ...

Porting the 508 design to the SPM also required modifying the sangoma WANPIPE software driver to compile and run on Linux for the Motorola MPC850 processor module. The changes mostly involved ...

Compiling zlib is straightforward. All you need to do is compile each C file and then link them all together. You can write a Makefile for it, but then you have to modify it on every single platform.

Download the software: Compile the kernel module. The -C should be the path to the linux source already used to build the kernel. This guarantees the module is compiled against the kernel that is ...

It used to be that open source software was released only as source code and had to be compiled wherever it was needed. Obviously, that’s changed. Today, some will even tell you that compiling ...

Exploring Linux PDA software alternatives Jerry Epplin explores the many ways Linux is used on PDAs and handheld devices. Written by Jerry Epplin, Contributor Dec. 10, 2000 at 4:00 p.m. PT ...