Live USBs are critical lifelines for persistence in Tails. Now, Tails 6.0 alerts users when underlying storage suffers read/write errors. This early detection, prior to catastrophic data loss, allows ...

Historically, AppArmor and SELinux maintained mostly separate user bases: Ubuntu/Debian vs RHEL/Fedora. But with SUSE moving ...

Ubuntu’s shift to sudo‑rs symbolizes a broader movement. Other mission-critical tools—uutils coreutils, findutils, ...

The groundwork for Rust modules in Linux was laid with kernel 6.1, and by version 6.8, the first experimental Rust drivers, ...

The adoption of ACPI 6.6 and expanded kernel support for S0ix and modern-sleep states allow laptops to hang out in ...

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 ...

Is Linux infrastructure? Or is it just another operating system, like Windows, MacOS and various Unixes? How about the Internet? Is the Net infrastructure? Or is it just the #3 "service" in the ...

Power management (PM) software is a crucial component in battery-powered systems, such as PDAs and laptops, because it helps conserve power when the system is inactive. As a simple example, power may ...

In the world of decentralization, distributed hash tables (DHTs) recently have had a revolutionary effect. The chaotic, ad hoc topologies of the first-generation peer-to-peer architectures have been ...

The BDW library is a freely available library that provides C and C++ programs with garbage collection capabilities. The algorithm it employs belongs to the family of mark and sweep collectors, where ...

Including the Python interpreter in your program is extremely simple. Python provides a single header file for including all of the definitions you need when embedding the interpreter into your ...

Since the earliest days of microprocessors, system designers have been plagued by a problem in which the speed of the CPU's operation exceeded the bandwidth of the memory subsystem to which it was ...