The exact mechanism varies from architecture to architecture. Those programs or issues that have not yet been addressed or resolved for Linux can still reside on the original drive and remain operational as long as they are needed. GNU/Linux increases personal computing freedom. Usually Linux based malware are extremely …

Getting involved with kernel development is, paradoxically, both easier than it seems like it should be, and also ridiculously difficult. Advocates of these extremely short and simple licenses contend that they provide even greater freedom than the GPL because they grant the freedom for source code to be incorporated into …

Modules that have other modules dependent on them must maintain a list of references at the end of their symbol table and pointed at by their module data structure. For example, software that can be freely modified but that does not have the same strict requirements for redistribution as the …

Whereas MINIX is based on a microkernel that contains the bare minimum amount of code necessary to run an operating system, Linux has a monolithic kernel, which means that functions like the file system, virtual memory, and various system calls all take place in privileged kernel space. Built in to …

Because of the diversity of the Linux community and the many needs which the software is attempting to meet, not eveything can be taken care of for you all of the time. Quite the contrary, the artisans and artists who craft software which can be shared, improved, and shared again …

If you do this, or try to exit again immediately, you are not warned again, and the stopped jobs are terminated. Once a Linux module has been loaded it is as much a part of the kernel as any normal kernel code. This value is called the inode number, often …