Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low memory ...

Is Linux inherently more secure than Windows? Apparently so, according to this article, but the reasons have less to do with "thousands of eyeballs" and more to do with "intelligent design." There are ...

i would like to know more about the linux architecture. i think i understand that everything is treated as a file, but iam more intrested in where certain device files are located. for example nics or ...

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...

Editor's note: This is the full version of the article "DSI: Secure Carrier-Class Linux" found in the July 2002 print edition of Linux Journal. The telecommunication industry's interest in clustering ...

Rapid growth in the market for x86 servers over the past year brought good news for both Linux and Windows, as research firm IDC reported last week. What’s not always appreciated, however, is just how ...