Google’s Linux Terminal app is the core interface for running Linux environments on Android. It spins up a virtual machine ...

Fedora’s beta releases offer one of the earliest glimpses into the next major version of the distribution — letting users and developers poke, test, and report issues before the final version ships.

Oracle released version 10.2.0.1 of the database (10g release 2) Oracle released version 2.0 of the ASM kernel driver and libraries Oracle released version 2.0 of the Oracle Cluster File System As you ...

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

On September 29th, the Linux Foundation announced that it is contributing Newton, a next-generation, GPU-accelerated physics ...

In Linux kernel programming, there are numerous occasions when processes wait until something occurs or when sleeping processes need to be woken up to get some work done. There are different ways to ...

Although the differences are sometimes made opaque in casual conversation, there is in fact a complete difference between archiving files and compressing them. Archiving means that you take 10 files ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

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 ...

On Linux kernel programming mailing lists oriented toward new developers (see the on-line Resources), a number of common questions are asked. Almost every time one of these questions is asked, the ...

In the early twentieth century, Heinrich Schenker developed a method of analyzing tonal music that ties a piece's melody, harmony and form to a simple underlying musical idea. To illustrate his theory ...