One thing you hear often about Linux is that there’s no software for it. This is simply not true. There may not be much proprietary software for it, but there is some, and there are plenty of free alternatives to what most offices use every day.
Overall, Linux is not known as a resource hog. The free operating system is a fairly lean machine out of the box — some distributions moreso than others. Still, there are some tweaks you can make to any Linux installation to speed things up.
A team of scientists and engineers led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will study how to design a telescope on the Moon for peering into the last unexplored epoch in the Universe’s history
What does the surface of Saturn’s ice-spewing moon Enceladus look like? To help find out, the robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn was sent soaring past the cryovolcanic moon and even right through one of Enceladus’ ice plumes.
A variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, it has now developed into one of the most user-friendly distributions on the market – with a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, a web-based package interface, number of versions
