With Linux 7.1-rc2, an upstream fix for the audio issue has finally landed, potentially simplifying support for Linux gaming ...

One of the biggest additions connected to LibreOffice 26.4 Beta is expanded support for AI-assisted writing tools through ...

The Linux Foundation’s Open Driver Initiative represents another step toward a more open and sustainable hardware ecosystem ...

Linux Journal, representing 25+ years of publication, is the original magazine of the global Open Source community.

A detailed look at the Linux Foundation’s new Open Driver Initiative and how it aims to improve open-source hardware driver development, strengthen collaboration between vendors and kernel maintainers ...

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 ...

NETLINK is a facility in the Linux operating system for user-space applications to communicate with the kernel. NETLINK is an extension of the standard socket implementation. Using NETLINK, an ...

The first installment of this series was an overview of memory barriers, why they are needed in SMP kernels and how the Linux kernel handles them [August 2005]. This installment gives an overview of ...

Robert Young: It is a great pleasure to have an excuse to reach out to you. How are you and your family? Your kids must be through college by now. Nancy and I and our three daughters are all doing ...

iptables is the user-space tool for configuring firewall rules in the Linux kernel. It is actually a part of the larger netfilter framework. Perhaps because iptables is the most visible part of the ...

In the last issue we started following a packet's journey from the wire up to the higher levels of network stack processing. We left the packet at the end of layer 3 processing, where IP has ...