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Given Eben Moglen's long association with the Free Software Foundation, his work on drafting th [...]

In the first article in this series, we briefly looked at the original Linux filesystem notific [...]

The upcoming 3.6 kernel will contain client-side support for the TCP 'fast open' protocol exten [...]

Adding the strlcpy() function (and the related strlcat() function) has been a perennial reques [...]

It's always a good time to review Arch Linux since it features a rolling release model. This m [...]

Bdale Garbee has become a rather well-known presence at linux.conf.au, having attended and spo [...]

Armijn Hemel is an engineer in the Netherlands who was for several years actively involved wit [...]

Other than the merging of the server-side component of TCP Fast Open, one of the few user-spac [...]

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a longstanding protocol—or series of protocols—for creating online [...]

As even moderately sophisticated users of the web are aware by now, the great majority of web [...]

The alpha test release of Fedora 19, 'Schrödinger's Cat', was released on April 23, with the u [...]

CircuitPython is an open-source implementation of the Python programming language for microcont [...]

An exploit posted on March 13 revealed a rather easily exploitable security vulnerability (CVE [...]

In the 'refereed talks' track at the Linux Plumbers Conference, Michael Kerrisk looked at the [...]

[This article was contributed by Ladislav Bodnar] Arch Linux is one of those quiet and little [...]

Since its humble beginnings in early 2002 Arch Linux has been growing in popularity, occasiona [...]

Following on from our two earlier namespaces articles (Part 1: namespaces overview and Part 2: [...]

Error reporting from the kernel (and low-level system libraries such as the C library) has been [...]

Given this editor's recent history (3 years working there), an article on the GENIVI Alliance [...]

The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its roll [...]

Fil-C is a memory-safe implementation of C and C++ that aims to let C code — complete with po [...]

Huge pages are an optimization technique designed to increase virtual memory performance. The [...]

The Linux 3.8 merge window saw the acceptance of Eric Biederman's sizeable series of user name [...]

The FreeBSD operating system is continuing to make progress, 26 years after it got its name. Am [...]

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My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux is now a global success, [...]

The input stack for Linux is an essential part of interacting with our systems, but it is also [...]

The renameat2() system call recently proposed by Miklos Szeredi is a fresh reminder of a categ [...]

Processing, a somewhat confusingly named language, has been around since 2001. As the language [...]

The 6.5 kernel was released on August 27 after a nine-week development cycle. By that time, so [...]

Anthonia Ghalamkarizadeh's talk at the 2013 Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop concern [...]

Karsten Gerloff is the current president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, the European [...]

The abstract goal of containers is, in effect, to provide a group of processes with the illusi [...]

In adjacent slots at the 2013 Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop, Daniel German and an [...]

During the 2012 LinuxCon North America conference, Richard Fontana, legal counsel at Red Hat, [...]

Continuing our ongoing series on namespaces, this article looks more closely at user namespace [...]

One of the features merged in the 3.9 development cycle was TCP and UDP support for the SO_REUS [...]

In an article last week, we saw that the EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE operation provides a way for multit [...]

A February linux-kernel mailing list discussion of a patch that extends the use of the CAP_COMP [...]

As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available [...]

The sixth Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop, which took place on 4-5 April 2013 in Am [...]

In this article, we continue last week's discussion of user namespaces. In particular, we look [...]

At the beginning of his talk on Linux game development at linux.conf.au 2013, Eric Anholt note [...]

Dave Jones continues to exercise his Trinity fuzz tester and uncover interesting bugs in kerne [...]

In a separate article, we explained how an ext4 change to the kernel-user-space ABI in Linux 3 [...]

LWN Executive Editor Jonathan Corbet is in Cambridge, UK for LinuxConf Europe 2007. He attende [...]

It has now been a little more than two years since the systemd project began, and in that time [...]

As noted by various commenters on our earlier article, 'Flags as a system call API design patt [...]

John Stultz continues to push the volatile ranges feature toward the kernel mainline. Volatile [...]

In this article, we continue last week's discussion of PID namespaces (and extend our ongoing s [...]

Linus Torvalds has railed frequently and loudly against kernel developers breaking user space. [...]

Mount namespaces are a powerful and flexible tool for creating per-user and per-container file [...]

Checkpoint/restore refers to the ability to snapshot the state of an application (which may co [...]

Filesystem notification APIs provide a mechanism by which applications can be informed [...]

In the previous installment of our article series on namespaces, we looked at the key concepts [...]

Interest in high-quality random numbers has increased in parallel with the increasing demands t [...]

Loadable kernel modules provide a mechanism to dynamically modify the functionality of a runni [...]

Minchan Kim's recent patch series to provide user-space-triggered reclaim of a process's pages [...]

Capabilities are—at least in theory—a nice idea: divide the privileges of root (use [...]

There are many mechanisms for communicating information between user-space applications and th [...]

The 2012 Kernel Summit was held in San Diego, CA, USA, over three days, 27-29 August. As with [...]

Patches that add new software features often gain the biggest headlines in free software proje [...]

The Linux kernel developers have long been aware of the need for better testing of the kernel. [...]

The abstract of Glauber Costa's talk at LinuxCon Europe 2012 started with the humorous note 'I [...]

The results of the user namespaces work on Linux have been a long time in coming, probably bec [...]

Checkpoint/restore is a mechanism that permits taking a snapshot of the state of an applicatio [...]

The 2012 X.Org Developers' Conference took place in the charming Bavarian city Nuremberg (Nürn [...]

We are accustomed to thinking of a system call as being a direct service request to the kernel. [...]

Copyright assignment is a topic that brings out strong passions in the free software community [...]

Applications like network servers that need to monitor multiple file descriptors using selec [...]

Michael Kerrisk started his 2016 Kernel Recipes talk by noting that the man pages collection, w [...]