VIENNA — At the Linux Foundation‘s Linux Plumbers Conference, the annual get-together for the top Linux kernel developers (and me), Microsoft Senior Software Engineer Chris Oo announced in a confidential computing micro-conference that Microsoft…Read More

Some people have told me recently that artificial intelligence (AI) is writing my stories. As if! However, there is a reason it might seem as if AI has provided a helping hand. I’ve published close to 15,000 stories, five books, … Continue reading →

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 →