If you understand the basic steps of compiling source code and inserting modules into the Ubuntu kernel, you should have no problem getting modules to run on your workstations.

It used to be that open source software was released only as source code and had to be compiled wherever it was needed. Obviously, that’s changed. Today, some will even tell you that compiling ...

For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice.

When compiling source code written in C++, which produces files that have a ".cpp" extension, you can simply change the file extension to ".bin" to make it executable.

Recently I've received some mail asking for a brief explanation on how to build Linux audio applications from source code packages. Ask and ye shall receive, hence the following simple guide for the ...