Linux, in its many forms, has always worn transparency as a badge of honor. Unlike proprietary systems where code is hidden ...

Under Wayland, GNOME 48’s fractional scaling is seamless, reverting tearing and flicker to distant memories. If you’re still ...

Live USBs are critical lifelines for persistence in Tails. Now, Tails 6.0 alerts users when underlying storage suffers ...

A detailed study of hundreds of Flatpak and Snap packages found that nearly 42% of Flatpak apps either override the supposed ...

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 ...

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 ...

inotify is a file change notification system—a kernel feature that allows applications to request the monitoring of a set of files against a list of events. When the event occurs, the application is ...

The Linux USB subsystem has grown from supporting only two different types of devices in the 2.2.7 kernel (mice and keyboards), to over 20 different types of devices in the 2.4 kernel. Linux currently ...

IDS tools are particular beasts, and Tripwire is no exception. Even if you don't need to be an expert programmer to use this package, actually taking advantage of it requires some patience, attention ...

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 ...