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Our Desktop Edition of Linux Journal has been available in a PDF since April 2005. Issues dating back to then are available to all current subscribers as a part of their paid subscription to Linux ...

A new initiative, called "EU OS," has been launched to develop a Linux-based operating system tailored specifically for the public sector organizations of the European Union (EU). This ...

Linking is the process of combining various pieces of code and data together to form a single executable that can be loaded in memory. Linking can be done at compile time, at load time (by loaders) ...

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Embedded developers working on kernels or bare-metal programs often go through several development cycles. Each time the developer modifies the code, the code has to be compiled, the ELF (Executable ...

The BDW library is a freely available library that provides C and C++ programs with garbage collection capabilities. The algorithm it employs belongs to the family of mark and sweep collectors, where ...

Docker's recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems has sent pulses racing in the microservice world. At the same time, many people have no clue what to make of it, so here's a quick explanation of why ...