In Windows, installing software is a matter of clicks. In Linux, however, there are quite a few ways to skin the cat. Depending on the distribution you have, software can be downloaded in the form of ...

OK so after problems with g++ and a recursive binary tree homework problem, it occurs to me that compiling Linux with the Microsoft or Intel compilers would yield interesting results. However, there ...

I'm running a RH8 machine, it's got libgd, libpng, and zlib installed (verified with rpm -q). I'm trying to compile ntop, which depends on all three of these packages.<BR><BR>According to the ntop ...

If you're trying out Linux—or completely switching over to it—after getting used to Windows or macOS, you're going to have to familiarize yourself with how software gets installed on this open source ...

It used to be that open source software was released only as source code and had to be compiled wherever it was needed. Obviously, that’s changed. Today, some will even tell you that compiling source ...