If you've ever installed Linux and noticed the distribution offers a "minimal" install, you've probably wondered, "Why bother?" Well, there are reasons those tiny options are available.

Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts ...

These heroes of open source software are hard at work behind the scenes without you even realizing it.

The firmware of the Flipper One is already publicly available, and there's a lot of interesting tech.

The FreeBSD team launched FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE with better security, storage, and cloud support. Download or upgrade to ...

Nine CrackArmor flaws in Linux AppArmor since 2017 enable root escalation and container bypass, putting 12.6M systems at risk.

Engineers at Netflix have uncovered deep performance bottlenecks in container scaling that trace not to Kubernetes or containerd alone, but into the CPU architecture and Linux kernel itself.

The Debian/Ubuntu package manager isn't just for installing and removing software. There's more to Apt than you might know.

Siril isn't for the fainthearted. It has a steep learning curve, and we admit to having to delve into the documentation ...

Linus Torvalds announced the release of fourth release candidate (RC4) for the upcoming 7.0. Here's what's new in Linux 7.0-rc4.

America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—it was intended to actually do a whole lot more. All ...

Assembler syntax is a touchy subject, with many a flamewar having raged over e.g. Intel vs AT&T style syntax. Thus when [Humberto Costa] recently acquired an MSX system for some fun ...