This course provides an overview of System Programming for the Linux operating system, or software which is interfacing directly with the Linux Kernel and C library. The basic components of a Linux ...

Ubuntu -- possibly the most popular distribution of the open source Linux operating system -- is striking out on its own. Canonical, the commercial company that oversees Ubuntu, has made a habit of ...

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No matter if users had dozens, or thousands, of CPU cores in their cloud, most preferrred Ubuntu. It was followed by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone CentOS, which is now part of the Red Hat ...

Microsoft is giving Linux virtual machines running on Hyper-V the chance to perform much better with the release of Linux Integration Components When Microsoft finally released its long-awaited ...

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Over the past six months I have reviewed five minimal Linux distributions that are optimized for running containers: Alpine Linux, CoreOS Container Linux, RancherOS, Red Hat Atomic Host, and VMware ...