Engineers are some of the heaviest number-crunchers around. If you are a grad student, post doc or undergrad, you usually get whatever is lying around as your work machine. Also, depending on how ...

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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. This is a contributed posting for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog by Peter Linnell, Linux Engineer ...

Apple Silicon Macs have gotten mostly glowing reviews on Ars and elsewhere for their speed, power efficiency, and the technical achievement they represent—the chips are scaled-up phone processors that ...

Users running Linux on Microsoft Azure have now outpaced the number of users running Windows Server on Azure. The revelation comes from a Microsoft Linux kernel developer named Sasha Levin. Levin made ...

NEC and Wind River are to develop Linux for portable devices, writes our Technology Editor Steve Bush, as NEC introduces a Linux development kit for audio-visual data on its EMMA Mobile 1 processor.

This usually comes from engineers who, despite having to develop for Linux, are locked in to a Windows desktop at the office. Well, in theory it is possible, but there are quite a few hurdles that ...

Hardware support under Linux is far better than it ever has been in the past. These days, most things “just work” out of the box, and you probably won’t have to compile any custom kernel modules.