A recent poll on Hacker News asking about Linux distributions of choice got me thinking, what can can we learn from a bigger picture of the distro landscape than a …

Package management is the seemingly simple task of administering software installation, upgrade, and removal. Like many things, it’s only simple when you squint your eyes from half a mile away — …

I spent the latter part of last week in San Diego at the inaugural CloudOpen conference, along with LinuxCon, which are both co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux …

I just came across the Windows Store for developers blog, which has a nice series of posts on what developers can do with Microsoft’s app store for Windows 8. One …

At our Monki Gras conference this February, the creator of Jenkins, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, gave an outstanding talk on building a community around open-source software.
(Aside: All the videos from Monki Gras are …

One of the big questions right now is whether mobile devices will replace or supplement existing desktop/laptop usage.
When I was browsing RedMonk Analytics recently, I found some tempting evidence that …