Why it’s great: Ubuntu is one of the most recognizable Linux distributions, and for good reason. It offers a polished ...

Kernel 5.4’s retirement also reflects a broader shift: Linux’s long-term support strategy is evolving. LTS periods have ...

KDE Gear 25.12 continues KDE’s commitment to polished, powerful, and user-focused applications. Whether you’re browsing files ...

Linux distributions designed with former Windows users in mind are no longer niche experiments, they’re becoming a genuine path forward for frustrated Windows users. Distros like Bazzite aren’t just ...

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 ...

Nowadays, high-performance server software (for example, the HTTP accelerator) in most cases runs on multicore machines. Modern hardware could provide 32, 64 or more CPU cores. In such highly ...

In the early twentieth century, Heinrich Schenker developed a method of analyzing tonal music that ties a piece's melody, harmony and form to a simple underlying musical idea. To illustrate his theory ...

I love discovering new UNIX commands, especially those with a system administration flavor. When I learned Red Hat distributed the chkconfig utility, it brought back fond memories of chkconfig under ...

Although the differences are sometimes made opaque in casual conversation, there is in fact a complete difference between archiving files and compressing them. Archiving means that you take 10 files ...

Software radio is the technique of getting code as close to the antenna as possible. It turns radio hardware problems into software problems. The fundamental characteristic of software radio is that ...

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 ...