Linux has been the open-source flagship project for over 30 years. Furthermore, It is remarkable that its leader is still involved – and in his original role, so to speak: Linus Torvalds releases the ...

The LDP is an immense collection of free Linux documentation ranging from complete books to some of the best HOWTOs. LDP Home Page: headquarters of the documentation project HOWTOS: a collection of ...

The other ways Linux handled startup before everything converged.

Arch Linux has a reputation for being hard to use, but this distro has gotten a lot easier to run on your PC over the years.

The Linux operating system is powerful and flexible, able to run in several different modes of operation called run levels. When a Linux system starts, a function called "init" is used to configure ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Linux remains an attractive option for embedded systems developers. In fact, industry surveys such as the Embedded Market Study by UBM (EDN's parent company) consistently show interest ...