I'm all-in, baby. I'm committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn't require me taking out a loan right now, ...

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025, bringing with it a fresh look at how Linux / ...

As is so often the case, a notable change in an upcoming Linux kernel is both historic and no big deal. What does this mean for desktop Linux? Not much. Beyond high-end audio production or replication ...

After using Linux for nearly 30 years, I've created a list of the best Linux distributions I've used since the beginning. Here they are.

Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

A real-time system must respect time constraints to ensure that its execution makes functional sense. It must be deterministic, ensuring the execution of system processes a priori. After analyzing the ...

The "time" command in Linux is a process timer and does not display the system time. Though counterintuitive, the Linux "date" command displays the time, as well as the date, on a Linux box. You can ...

Linux is well tuned for throughput-limited applications, but it is not well designed for deterministic response, though enhancements to the kernel are available to help or guarantee determinism.

In the first two articles of this series [see ``Real Time and Linux'' in the January/February 2002 issue and ``Real Time and Linux, Part 2: the Preemptible Kernel'' in the March/April 2002 issue of ...