[Andreas] has created this tutorial on real-time (RT) tasks in Linux. At first blush that sounds like a rather dry topic, but [Andreas] makes things interesting by giving us some real-world demos ...

Controlling RGB lighting on Linux can be challenging due to the lack of native support from most hardware manufacturers, but several tools and methods have emerged to help users manage their RGB ...

The Hackosis blog notes a contentious conversation thread between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and a programmer who finds that disabling the atime option, which writes a last-accessed time to every ...

For years, we used to have a plain-old ADSL in the office—fast download speeds, slow upload, high latency—all that at the cost of $1/GB. We have had so many problems with performance and reliability ...

Using Linux on a touchscreen monitor or two-in-one computer has become increasingly viable, thanks to built-in support in the Linux kernel. However, the usability of Linux on touchscreens largely ...

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Follow along with this step-by-step guide to build your own distribution from source and learn how it installs, loads and runs. When working with Linux, you easily can download any of the most common ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.