Signals on Unix systems are critical to the way processes live and die. This article looks at how they're generated, how they work, and how processes receive or block them. On Unix systems, there are ...

This month, I thought it would be interesting to take a bit of a detour from my usual multi-month programming projects and instead focus on a specific topic that is of great importance to people ...

At long last, Valve has confirmed that Linux ports of both Steam and the Source engine are in active development, and should be released later this year. These are native solutions that run directly ...

MontaVista Software has signed a new customer, Peek Traffic, which will use the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's embedded Linux software to run traffic signal controllers designed for European ...

I am about to hook up a serial remote to an old box which will become the mp3 decoder for my stereo.<BR><BR>Currently the laptop is running win2k server, but I was wondering if there is a linux distro ...

The Utah federal court judge's ruling on August 10 -- that SuSE Linux distributor Novell does, in fact, own the copyrights to the UNIX operating system -- signals a major legal blow for The SCO Group.

At long last, Valve has confirmed that Linux ports of both Steam and the Source engine are in active development, and should be released later this year. These are native solutions that run directly ...