Software Engineer Stops Attempt to Add Backdoor to Linux Operating Systems Microsoft software engineer Andres Freund discovers a backdoor lurking in the XZ Utils data-compression tools, which are open ...

The history of Linux is among the most unusual stories of recent technological progress. In 1991, Finnish undergraduate Linus ...

Every so often, I'm surprised by a Linux distribution. After working with and reviewing these things for the past few decades, you'd think there aren't any surprises left. That's why it's always a ...

Modern Linux distributions are powerful operating systems that can fully replace Windows or macOS for many users. But there are still some Windows-only applications that may not be available for Linux ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

This course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux kernel drivers for Embedded devices. The Yocto build system is introduced, which ...

These operating systems treat extra features the way budget airlines treat legroom.

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating systems, there is much more variety than just the hundreds of flavors of Linux ...