Linux

Unix: Beyond owner, group, and everyone else

Breaking out of the traditional owner/group/world way of managing file permissions, setfacl and getfacl provide a lot of flexibility and fair share of complexity.

The Linux desktop-a-week review: LXDE

I've used LXDE for weeks, and I'm still having trouble finding much to say about it. That's not a good sign.

Canonical celebrates cloud freedoms with new Ubuntu

Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely

UNIX admins threaten to fork Debian if systemd makes it into next version

Microsoft (hearts) Linux, for Azure’s sake

ChromeOS team listens to Linux community, brings back ext2/3/4

It's great to see a community response to an unpopular decision actually have an impact.

Dronecode: A home for drones

The drone world could have become a fragmented mess of proprietary systems but Dronecode promises to deliver sophisticated, free, open source platforms

ChromeOS disses Linux users, drops ext2/3/4

Trying to figure out why exactly ChromeOS would make such a silly decision.

Unix: Expiring passwords with chage

Better know an OS: Linux Mint 17.1 “Qiana”

Elegant, high-performance, easy-to-use, highly functional, stable, and maintainable ... Mint 17 could well be the perfect desktop Linux