Will Linux ever be mainstream?

Constantly different sites and communities always discuss the possibility of Linux becoming mainstream and when the mainstreaming will take ...

GPLv3 - Is it right for your family?

The GPLv3 came out a while ago, with a changed outlook from v2, which upset many people, with some choosing to relabel their software from ...

Directory safety when working with paths

As we discussed in our previous two articles, we run into issues of thread safety when we try changing the path during a running program. ...

Are open source libraries written properly?

Every now and then you hear people discussing open source applications and libraries, and how a bug was found. The multitude of bugs being f...