Pop!_OS has long been a solid choice for Linux gaming, thanks to built-in support for Steam, Proton, and Lutris. With 24.04, ...

Linux is a treasure trove of powerful tools, many of which remain undiscovered by casual users. While staples like grep, awk, ...

Canonical has positioned Ubuntu 25.04 as a springboard for technological maturity ahead of the next long-term support (LTS) ...

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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 ...

ALSA stands for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. It consists of a set of kernel drivers, an application programming interface (API) library and utility programs for supporting sound under Linux.

If you usually work with non-trivial C sources, you may have wondered which execution path (that is, which sequence of function calls) brought you to a certain point in your program. Also, it would be ...

"Marley was dead, to begin with."—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. As you surely know by now, Linux Journal started in 1994, which means it has been around for most of the Linux story. A lot has ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...

Linux has long been the backbone of modern computing, serving as the foundation for servers, cloud infrastructures, embedded systems, and supercomputers. As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine ...

The kernel this. The kernel that. People often refer to one operating system's kernel or another without truly knowing what it does or how it works or what it takes to make one. What does it take to ...

Jim demonstrates color manipulation with curses by adding colors to his terminal adventure game. Drawing on the screen is all very well and good, but if it's all white-on-black text, your program ...