Why it’s great: Ubuntu is one of the most recognizable Linux distributions, and for good reason. It offers a polished ...

The Linux kernel remains the beating heart of the OS. In 2026, we’ll likely see: New Long-Term Support (LTS) Baselines: With releases like 6.18 already declared LTS and successor branches maturing, ...

KDE Gear 25.12 continues KDE’s commitment to polished, powerful, and user-focused applications. Whether you’re browsing files ...

Kernel 5.4’s retirement also reflects a broader shift: Linux’s long-term support strategy is evolving. LTS periods have ...

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.

All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and ...

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 ...

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 ...

As more people and companies start to write Linux kernel code, understanding acceptable kernel programming coding style and conventions is very important. This article starts out by explaining the ...

Nowadays, high-performance server software (for example, the HTTP accelerator) in most cases runs on multicore machines. Modern hardware could provide 32, 64 or more CPU cores. In such highly ...

Since the earliest days of microprocessors, system designers have been plagued by a problem in which the speed of the CPU's operation exceeded the bandwidth of the memory subsystem to which it was ...