I am consistently being frustrated trying to compile programs from source, so I'm thinking I'm probably doing something wrong. Most of my frustration is centered around libraries: figuring out which ...

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 ...

Linux has come a long way from its roots, where users had to compile the kernel and all of the other source code from scratch, often without any internet connection at all to help with documentation.

Testing is an integral and important part of any software development cycle, open or closed, and Linux kernel is no exception to that. Developer testing, integration testing, regression, and stress ...