Ever been too scared to install a program that wasn’t an RPM or DEB? In Windows, installing software is a matter of clicks. In Linux, however, there are quite a few ways to skin the cat. Depending on ...

Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell may be best known for his work on Samba, but in recent years his interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) threatens to become even more popular. On the last day of ...

I'm running a RH8 machine, it's got libgd, libpng, and zlib installed (verified with rpm -q). I'm trying to compile ntop, which depends on all three of these packages. According to the ntop readme, I ...

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

In this TechRepublic How to Make Tech Work video, Jack Wallen shows you the step-by-step process of compiling a C++ program on Linux, using Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 for his demo. I am going to show you ...

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 ...

I remember the first time I compiled a Linux kernel. I was nervous. It was something I’d never done before, and it seemed like an incredibly difficult task. After all, isn’t the kernel the stuff of ...

OK so after problems with g++ and a recursive binary tree homework problem, it occurs to me that compiling Linux with the Microsoft or Intel compilers would yield interesting results. However, there ...