VIENNA — Wind River Systems, a longtime leader in embedded operating systems and mission-critical systems, on Tuesday announced the launch of eLxr Pro, (pronounced “exlir”), its new commercial enterprise Linux offering designed for AI and…Read More

VIENNA — After 20 years, Real-Time Linux (PREEMPT_RT) is finally — finally — in the mainline kernel. Linus Torvalds blessed the code while he was at Open Source Summit Europe. Why is this a big deal? Let’s start by explaining … Continue reading →

VIENNA — The popular open source analytics engine OpenSearch will now be directed by the community rather than Amazon Web Services. At Open Source Summit Europe, AWS announced it’s transferring OpenSearch, its fork of ElasticSearch, to the Linux…Read More

Table of Contents 1. The big one: rm -rf /2. dd stands for disk destroyer3. The process proliferator: :(){ :|:& };:4. The permission pulverizer: chmod -R 777 /5. The disk formatter: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdaThe Linux way One important thing you need … Continue reading →

VIENNA – In a candid keynote chat at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on kernel development, the integration of Rust, and the future of open source. Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Open Source…Read … Continue reading →

Vienna, Austria: Linus Torvalds and I are both in Vienna, which is being blasted by a storm. So, instead of looking at museums, I spent my time writing, and he spent his time releasing the Linux 6.11 kernel. Torvalds wrote, … Continue reading →