I’ve been working a lot with Windows 7 recently. I’ve also, as always, been using Linux distributions like Fedora, SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop), and Ubuntu.

Learning these differences between Windows and Linux can cure headaches. That fish out of water feeling is awful, when the most basic operations throw you for a loop.

What really are the most fundamental differences between Windows variants like 2003/XP and Unix variants like Linux? From a practical perspective, cost is an obvious differentiator, as are access to ...

In today's open source roundup: What makes Linux distributions different from one another? Plus: Chromixium combines Ubuntu and Chrome OS. And Ubuntu 15.10 to be called Wily Werewolf.

I do not believe that a reader’s operating system has much influence on which interrogators companies purchase, however. Ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) readers based on the EPC Gen 2 protocol run what is ...