Tag: GNU
Haskell: The Purely Functional Programming Language
Haskell, an open source programming language, is the outcome of 20 years of research. It has all the advantages of functional programming and an...
A Beginner’s Guide To Grep: Basics And Regular Expressions
Grep is one among the system administrator's "Swiss Army knife" set of tools, and is extremely useful to search for strings and patterns in...
An Interview with Richard Stallman on Freedom, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Steve...
Any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company.
Before you even speak a...
Protecode: Software License Management is Like Any Other Quality Management Process
Someone rightly observed: "All code is guilty, until proven innocent." Ask the members of any software development team, and they will agree that tracking...
Fedora Scientific: Open Source Scientific Computing
Fedora Scientific Spin is a Fedora Linux spin that aims to showcase the open source tools for scientific and numerical computing. It was first...
Virtualisation and Disk Management in OpenIndiana
In the previous part, we got acquainted with OpenIndiana -- how to install the base system, find and deploy packages, and perform maintenance tasks...
Modify-function-return-value hack! — Part 2
In my previous article on this topic, we discussed some guidelines on how to write a secure application in C. The article focused on...
Let’s Play with GNU Screen
Many GNU/Linux users spend time working at the command line. The GNU Screen utility can be of great use if you work with multiple...
Face to Face with RMS
It was one of the rarest opportunities to spend some time with the man I’ve always looked up to since I migrated to GNU/Linux systems...
