If you think about it, an operating system kernel is really just a very powerful shared library that offers services to many programs. Of course, it is a very powerful library, but still — its main ...

One given in the world of IT is that to succeed, you must never stop learning. With that in mind, four recent books on Linux are definitely worth your time. Building Applications With the Linux ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. I’m a Linux advocate, but I’m also a realist. Anyone who tells you ...

I haven't missed Windows at all.

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability inside a core email-related library used by many BSD and Linux distributions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, impacts OpenSMTPD, an ...

In a move to open new markets for its machine-visionproducts, Cognex has added Linux support to the CVL (Cognex Vision Library)software developer's kit. The new CVL 7.0 CR7 release works with Linux ...

IBM announced that the Library of Congress will run Linux on its pSeries servers, models that historically have run Unix. The Library of Congress will use the servers for an online catalog of film, ...

A serious vulnerability in a key Linux library could let attackers take complete control of systems, such as servers, that are based on the open-source operating system. Those running Linux systems ...