Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological advances elsewhere.

Windows 10's Windows System for Linux (WSL) will soon let developers run Linux GUI apps, while Linux guests on Windows will soon gain access to GPU power for hardware acceleration. WSL is currently ...

Windows may seem easier, but Linux has a lot of advantages over it. You might not even know these features exist, but they're fantastic.

In previous articles, we looked at how to configure the kernel as well as the key components of an embedded operating system (OS). This new article focuses on the hardware components of embedded Linux ...

The Elementary OS team has released version 8.0.2, featuring bug fixes for default apps, accessibility improvements, and more ...

Microsoft introduced the New Technology File System (NTFS), a proprietary journaling file system, in Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. Since then, it replaced 1977's File Allocation Table (FAT) file system in ...

The “hid-sony” driver has been available on Linux for a while. According to Phoronix, Sony has released a new “hid-playstation” driver today to include support for DualSense controllers, as well as ...

Troubled Chipzilla’s decision to sack around 24,000 workers has not only left its product lines short-staffed, it has gutted some of the essential work keeping Linux support alive for Intel hardware.

Linux 6.17-rc7 is out, and it's looking good. The latest release candidate is full of small, random changes across various ...

Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very boring ...

My previous article introduced you to Linux drivers and helped you get started using and writing simple user-space I/O programs. 1 In this article, I hope to familiarize you with kernel-level I/O ...

A sharp-eyed enthusiast spotted a device ID in a continuous integration test log proving that BMG-G31 exists. But will it ...