When Windows fails, this tiny USB drive takes over.

Live patching is a way of updating a running system without stopping it. It is best known as a technique for keeping Linux servers updated to the latest security levels without affecting downtime.

While Linux operating systems – also known as distributions or distros, for short – tend to be less consumer-friendly than Windows and even recent Mac platforms, they do offer quite a bit of ...

Explore the rise and fall of these groundbreaking Linux systems, and how their legacies live on.

In my recent column “Security Features in Ubuntu” (LJ, March 2008), I mentioned that the live CD method of running Linux from a CD-ROM or DVD rather than directly from a hard drive has important and ...