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5 Minimal Web Browsers for Linux

There are so many reasons to enjoy the Linux desktop. One reason I often state up front is the almost unlimited number of choices...

Linux For Beginners: Understanding The Many Versions Of Ubuntu

But did you know there are seven different "flavors" of Ubuntu?*  I'll briefly explain the kind of user each Ubuntu version is designed for, what differentiates them...

Bio-Linux: A Stable, Portable Scientific Research Linux Distribution

Bio-Linux was introduced and detailed in a Nature Biotechnology paper in July 2006. The distribution was a group effort by the Natural Environment Research Council in...

Selectively Deploying your Superpowers on Linux

The sudo command is very handy when you need to run occasional commands with superuser power, but you can sometimes run into problems when it doesn’t...

Linux Fu: Controlling the Terminal

The most fundamental question you have to ask is what kind of terminal are you talking to. The answer is in the $TERM environment variable and...

Linux Foundation Offers Open Source Certification Exams from Anywhere

As the use of open-source software continues to grow for businesses of all sizes, a shortage of qualified IT administrators and other staff members...

Gaining eBPF Vision: A New Way to Trace Linux Filesystem Disk Requests

A real-world use case of eBPF tracing to understand file access patterns in the Linux kernel and optimize large applications. By Gabriel Krisman Bertazi, Software...

cregit: Token-Level Blame Information for the Linux Kernel

Who wrote this code? Why? What changes led to this function’s current implementation? These are typical questions that developers (and sometimes lawyers) ask during their...

Linus Torvalds: After Big Linux Performance Hit, Spectre v2 Patch Needs Curbs

Major slowdowns caused by the new Linux 4.20 kernel have been traced to a mitigation for Spectre variant 2 that Linux founder Linus Torvalds...

Get Cyber Monday Savings on Linux Foundation Training and Certification

It’s time for our biggest sale of the year. The Linux Foundation’s annual Cyber Monday event means you can get trained and get certified...