If you think about it, an operating system kernel is really just a very powerful shared library that offers services to many programs. Of course, it is a very powerful library, but still — its main ...

I haven't missed Windows at all.

Sometimes, the price of popularity is more scrutiny. As the Linux operating system, and open source in general, gets more and more coverage in mainstream media and news, a lot of security holes, and ...

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Linux math library (libm.so glibc), a fundamental component of Red Hat In ...

A vender I'm working with provided a static library (.a) and two header files. I'm purely a Java guy, and we'll eventually get to a pure Java library, but in the meantime I'd like to test using ...

Linux is such a powerful platform that enterprise businesses of all kinds would struggle to remain as agile and capable as they are without it. With that much importance, it’s imperative that your IT ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. I’m a Linux advocate, but I’m also a realist. Anyone who tells you ...

In this article, we look at two GUI libraries, examine the differences and give some advice on when to choose each. The company I work for is dedicated to helping customers make the right decision ...

IBM announced that the Library of Congress will run Linux on its pSeries servers, models that historically have run Unix. The Library of Congress will use the servers for an online catalog of film, ...

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability inside a core email-related library used by many BSD and Linux distributions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, impacts OpenSMTPD, an ...