If you’ve ever wondered how much memory a process uses, you’ve probably used a form of task manager or system monitor. System monitors can be useful to identify resource hogs, but are often less ...

Linux Networx, The Linux Supercomputing Company, today announced that Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has ordered a Custom Supersystem for the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the ...

Alongside Red Hat and Novell's recent pulling away from the consumer Linux space, some are not confident the operating system (OS) will be ready for the mainstream market anytime soon. Both big open ...

Swap space can play an important role in system performance. Learn how to determine how much swap space your system has available and how much it's being used. Most of us don’t often think about swap ...

The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers aboard the International Space Station in association with NASA, has announced that the Windows XP computers aboard the ISS have been switched to ...

There are many ways to evaluate disk space usage on Linux, and this post examines a number of commands that allow you to view used and available disk space. The df command stands for “disk free” and, ...

Ubuntu has long been the most recognizable name in the Linux space, and it's the most popular distro out there, something I've argued is actually a net negative for Linux adoption. Ubuntu is a ...

As any product becomes part of the mass market, it's inevitable that competition will narrow and the space will shake-out. Thanks in part to Google, Linux is finally becoming a mainstream OS, ...