openSUSE Leap 16 marks a significant evolution in the openSUSE project, integrating the robustness of SUSE Linux Enterprise ...

One of the standout features of Manjaro 25.0 is its enhanced support for Flatpak, a universal package management system. This ...

Founded in 2008 by the Zorin brothers, Zorin OS was created with one mission: to make Linux accessible to everyone, ...

The inclusion of Rust-based tools in Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka represents a significant milestone—not just for Canonical, ...

Linking is the process of combining various pieces of code and data together to form a single executable that can be loaded in memory. Linking can be done at compile time, at load time (by loaders) ...

The Linux kernel is undergoing major changes that will shape its future development and adoption, according to Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and executive editor of Linux Weekly News.

The library API works with logical device names rather than device files. The device names can be real hardware devices or plugins. Hardware devices use the format hw: i, j, where i is the card number ...

Jim demonstrates color manipulation with curses by adding colors to his terminal adventure game. In parts one and two of my article series about programming with the ncurses library, I introduced a ...

Zack Brown is a tech journalist at Linux Journal and Linux Magazine, and is a former author of the "Kernel Traffic" weekly newsletter and the "Learn Plover" stenographic typing tutorials. He first ...

The flags field controls the behavior of memory allocation. We can divide flags into three groups: action modifiers, zone modifiers and types. Action modifiers tell the kernel how to allocate memory.

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...