Part one of a three-part series. WASHINGTON -- Super-secure additions to the Linux operating system are inching closer to the mainstream. Developers have turned Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), a ...

Linux finally has an impressive cloud-like OS in Ubuntu Web Your email has been sent Jack Wallen has discovered a Chrome OS-like Linux desktop distribution that makes it possible for users to cut ties ...

If you don't know what the Linux desktop operating system is, or if you're new to it, Jack Wallen's quick explainer will get you up to speed. Linux. What is it? At one point in time it was a niche ...

The Palomar line of PMC modules has been expanded with a board that's equipped with a Linux symmetric-multiprocessing software support package. The 1000 DFX uses the Linux SMP software to balance the ...

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.

The Linux kernel is the beating heart of any Linux Operating System (OS), a formidable software layer that sits at the core of the computing experience, facilitating communication between hardware and ...

Decisions made years ago about which operating system to roll out can affect corporate security today. Of the big three in widespread use, one can credibly be called the most secure. Enterprises ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...