The landscape of desktop operating systems has witnessed a notable transformation in 2025. Linux, once considered a niche ...

Released on March 24, 2025, Linux Kernel 6.14 introduces significant enhancements for Intel and AMD processors, focusing on ...

openSUSE Leap 16 marks a significant evolution in the openSUSE project, integrating the robustness of SUSE Linux Enterprise ...

One of the standout features of Manjaro 25.0 is its enhanced support for Flatpak, a universal package management system. This ...

By now almost everyone has heard of so-called zero-copy functionality under Linux, but I often run into people who don't have a full understanding of the subject. Because of this, I decided to write a ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Software and hardware engineers who have to deal with byte and bit order issues know the process is like walking a maze. Though ...

But many other data compression tools are available to choose from in Linux. See the comprehensive compression and decompression benchmarks in Figures 2 and 3. As with gzip, the best performers are in ...

Popular memory-consistency models include x86's process consistency, in which writes from a given CPU are seen in order by all CPUs, and weak consistency, which permits arbitrary reorderings limited ...

Why do the above features use netlink instead of system calls, ioctls or proc filesystems for communication between user and kernel worlds? It is a nontrivial task to add system calls, ioctls or proc ...

Linking is the process of combining various pieces of code and data together to form a single executable that can be loaded in memory. Linking can be done at compile time, at load time (by loaders) ...

ALSA stands for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. It consists of a set of kernel drivers, an application programming interface (API) library and utility programs for supporting sound under Linux.

Why are there kernel programming style rules in the first place? Why not just let authors code in whatever style they want, and let everyone live with it? After all, code formatting does not affect ...