Practical Technology

Column A few years ago developers knew eBPF as a handy way to build firewalls yet now it’s used everywhere for everything. Get ready for io_uring to do the same. Most people don’t know the first thing about Linux programming. Why should they? Linux,…Read More

As they do at almost every Open Source Summit, Dirk Hohndel, chief open source officer at the Cardano Foundation, and Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder, talked about all things Linux and the keynote discussion at Open Source Summit Europe in Dublin…Read More

Dublin, Ireland — At Open Source Summit Europe, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced that it had the funding needed to implement SBOM Everywhere, its plan to bring software bill of materials (SBOM) to all programming languages and…Read More

At the Open Source Summit Europe in Dublin on Tuesday, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF). The open what now, you ask? Is this an attempt to get me to donate money to the Linux Foundation? Nope. OpenWallet…Read More

Dublin, Ireland: I’ve known Linus Torvalds for decades, but since Covid hit, we haven’t had a chance for a face-to-face interview in years. Finally, at 2022’s Linux Plumbers Conference, the annual get-together of the world’s top Linux developers, we…Read More

First things first. The National Security Agency (NSA) isn’t just breaking into other people’s communications. The NSA is also all about protecting communications from snoopers. So, it is that the NSA made the original secure Linux (SELinux); has…Read More