The work done on real-time Linux has benefitted the open-source OS for years, but it was only this week that Linus Torvalds admitted its last piece into the mainline kernel. Exactly what took so long?

Are you prepping up for an interview where you may face Linux-related questions? Then read through. This article takes you through 17 important Linux questions with answers that will make you ...

During the course of the past week, there's been an increasingly lively discussion (and debate) about the real-time characteristics of Linux, and over which approach is best. As a result ...

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate Now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches.

This reader brings up a valid point. Linux is not a real-time operating system (OS) in and of itself. As Vibhoosh Gupta of GE Automation & Controls noted in the original article, GE uses “Type 1 ...

After two decades of dedicated development, the "PREEMPT_RT" patch set for real-time Linux has finally been integrated into the main kernel code, receiving approval from Linus Torvalds ...

With tail, you can view a Linux log file as the system writes to it in real time. So while you’re trying to troubleshoot that system, you can follow the syslog, the auth.log, faillog, kern.log ...

[Andreas] has created this tutorial on real-time (RT) tasks in Linux. At first blush that sounds like a rather dry topic, but [Andreas] makes things interesting by giving us some real-world demos u… ...