The landscape of desktop operating systems has witnessed a notable transformation in 2025. Linux, once considered a niche ...

The adoption of ACPI 6.6 and expanded kernel support for S0ix and modern-sleep states allow laptops to hang out in ...

The groundwork for Rust modules in Linux was laid with kernel 6.1, and by version 6.8, the first experimental Rust drivers, ...

Released on March 24, 2025, Linux Kernel 6.14 introduces significant enhancements for Intel and AMD processors, focusing on performance, power efficiency, and hardware compatibility. These updates are ...

General Information The Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO lists most of the hardware known to be either supported or unsupported under Linux. Laptops and mobile devices Linux on Laptops: full ...

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

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 ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Software and hardware engineers who have to deal with byte and bit order issues know the process is like walking a maze. Though ...

Nowadays, high-performance server software (for example, the HTTP accelerator) in most cases runs on multicore machines. Modern hardware could provide 32, 64 or more CPU cores. In such highly ...

The kernel this. The kernel that. People often refer to one operating system's kernel or another without truly knowing what it does or how it works or what it takes to make one. What does it take to ...

GRUB recognizes a number of different filesytem types, including Linux ext2fs, Reiser, MINIX, BSD's ffs, as well as FAT, so it is possible to make a GRUB boot floppy with any of these filesystems. We ...