Over the years, Linux (well, the operating system that is commonly known as Linux which is the Linux kernel and the GNU tools) has become much more complicated than its Unix roots. That’s inevitable, ...

Most software follows a 3-step process to build from source: ./configure && make && make install. The configure script checks dependencies, while make generates an executable; autoconf/automake help ...

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...