I recently installed Linux for the first time in over a year (at least I think it's been that long) since I got another machine to work with (my last died and couldn't afford to fix it). I started ...

I have installed FreeBSD on my home box, just to see how it works, and get more women.<br>I like it pretty much so far.<br>Got Gnome, Samba, etc working.<br><br>The only thing that it is driving me ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

Linux, an immensely powerful and versatile operating system, sits at the heart of countless applications, from tiny embedded devices to massive servers. A pivotal aspect for any user, whether a ...

Canonical, the company backing the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has fine-tuned the kernel for better performance on the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud, reportedly providing 30 percent ...

It is no secret that Linux has won the race in the embedded device marketplace. Tremendous advantages in Linux have broken almost every barrier to entry for using Linux on embedded systems across a ...

Today I have a tale of mystery, of horror, and of hope. The allure of a newer kernel and packages was too much to resist, so I found myself upgrading to Fedora 30. All the packages had downloaded, all ...

When you turn on a Sun workstation, the firmware in the boot PROM (programmable read-only memory) is executed immediately. The main function of a boot PROM is to load a standalone program to the core ...