Arch Linux’s decision to officially support a Rust init system highlights the distribution’s enduring spirit of innovation.

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This bold shift represents more than a technical update — it signals a philosophical evolution in how Linux desktops are ...

Pop!_OS has long been a solid choice for Linux gaming, thanks to built-in support for Steam, Proton, and Lutris. With 24.04, ...

Jim demonstrates color manipulation with curses by adding colors to his terminal adventure game. Drawing on the screen is all very well and good, but if it's all white-on-black text, your program ...

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 ...

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...

ALSA stands for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. It consists of a set of kernel drivers, an application programming interface (API) library and utility programs for supporting sound under Linux.

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 ...

In last month's article, we saw how the Linux input subsystem worked inside the kernel, ending with a quick mention of the event handlers. Each handler essentially provides a different user-space API, ...

Looks simple enough; you would think there is not much overhead with only those two system calls. In reality, this couldn't be further from the truth. Behind those two calls, the data has been copied ...

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) ...