If they did, then it would be incompatible with 2k, XP, and 2k3. Why why they do that? That said, it's MS's technology. Why should they be restricted from changing it at any time for any purpose. What ...

I'm writing a program in C to write/select/read on a serial port in Linux. I have the serial port code all set up, but the problem is that I need this operation to be very fast (time is the issue here ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...