The design of the Linux kernel is well-informed regarding modern kernel design. It’s just that there are choices to be made, and Linux went with the traditional one.

In this article, Linux Journal speaks with four Linux device experts—Henry Kingman, Rick Lehrbaum, Shawn Powers and Bill Weinberg—in a virtual roundtable to take the pulse of Linux-based devices. They ...

Exploring Linux Disk Usage with the du Command Often we might simply want to check how much room a file or directory is using. The du command is useful for this and works in a similar way to the ...

In June of this year, ZF Linux Devices Inc., released their single device PC-on-a-chip, the MachZ. This device heralds a new era in ultra-low power consumption utilizing standard x86 technology.

My personal favorite, Arch Linux, is designed to be on the bleeding edge of the Linux desktop experience with a “rolling release” model. A rolling release distribution’s (downstream) developers ship a ...

Instead of pre-certification, Linux is generally handled using a concept from IEC 62304 called Software of Unknown Providence, or SOUP, for today’s medical devices. Under these guidelines, Linux ...

While far from being one of the first 50 Linux commands anyone learns, the lshw command (read as “ls hardware”) can provide a lot of useful details on your system’s hardware.. It extracts ...

VirtualBox lets you run Linux in a virtual machine, but doesn't automatically shrink guest volumes. Find out how to shrink them and save disk space.

Instead of pre-certification, Linux is generally handled using a concept from IEC 62304 called Software of Unknown Providence, or SOUP, for today’s medical devices. Under these guidelines, Linux ...