Intel is once again investing in Linux development. The company has recently posted several job openings aimed at strengthening its Linux graphics driver and GPU software teams, signaling continued ...

AerynOS 2026.02 Alpha highlights the steady progress of this ambitious Linux distribution. With updated desktops, modern software components, improved build tools, and new installation options, the ...

Armbian 26.02 represents another solid step forward for Linux on ARM and RISC-V hardware. With the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel, new board support, improved desktop options, and upgrades to its tooling ...

Looks simple enough; you would think there is not much overhead with only those two system calls. In reality, this couldn't be further from the truth. Behind those two calls, the data has been copied ...

Many Linux administrators and support technicians regularly use the top utility for real-time monitoring of their system state. In some shops, it is very typical to check top first when there is any ...

NETLINK is a facility in the Linux operating system for user-space applications to communicate with the kernel. NETLINK is an extension of the standard socket implementation. Using NETLINK, an ...

All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and ...

As more people and companies start to write Linux kernel code, understanding acceptable kernel programming coding style and conventions is very important. This article starts out by explaining the ...

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 ...

A vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is an alternative to the somewhat cycle-expensive system call interface that the GNU/Linux kernel provides. But, before I explain how to cook up your own vDSO, ...