An old book about an even older operating system.

If you’ve used Linux for a long time, you know that we are spoiled these days. Getting a new piece of hardware back in the day was often a horrible affair, requiring custom kernels and lots ...

The Wayland reference compositor Weston has been released in version 15. It brings a Vulkan renderer and a Lua shell.

Bulky, assorted files filling up my Downloads folder are no more.

Abstract: In this paper, we present a Fragmented Hybrid Cloud (FHC) that provides a unified view of multiple geographically distributed private cloud datacenters. FHC leverages a fragmented usage ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

Weird Computing: As the "can it run Doom" phenomenon clearly demonstrates, people will try to do the weirdest things with extensible, accessible software platforms and applications. Excel, a program ...

In an increasingly digital world, mastering Linux is not just a skill; it’s a gateway to numerous career opportunities. Linux, an open-source family of operating systems powered by the Linux kernel, ...

Are you familiar with Huffman encoding? That’s where you pick shorter codes for more frequent letters. Morse code is the same way, in that the most-used letters are the shortest. [Matheus Richard] had ...