David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Please excuse the very vague question, but I'm a total Linux newbie, and I don't know where to even BEGIN to start finding out how to resolve this issue. Here's the situation. I am trying to run ...

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 ...