Normally, installing a new application is no more difficult than double-clicking an installer and hitting Next a few times. For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's ...

Have you ever thought of writing your own compiler? There are a number of good reasons to do this. It's incredibly educational and can be useful. It can solve problems and produce abstractions that ...

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...