Linux continues to grow bigger and better. Here's what's new and notable in the 6.16 release, plus what you need to know about 6.17.

Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and single-board computers possess limited memory and processing ...

Useful Linux commands for examining memory usage and what the numbers mean Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free.

Open-sauce driver breathes new life into 20-year-old GPUs While Microsoft long ago lobbed support for ATI’s ancient ...

TuxCare Radar is an in-memory CVE scanner that reduces false positives, speeds compliance, and delivers real-time Linux ...

An excerpt from Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals explaining memory management and the Linux/Unix address space.

On the rare occasion that my Linux desktop freezes, I have a few tricks up my sleeve that keep me from having to do a hard reboot on my machine.

This is how much linux has allocated to the buffer cache, and will decrease it acordingly if real memory is needed. Generally you will always have very little memory free on a linux system.

Jérôme Glisse felt that the time had come for the Linux kernel to address seriously the issue of having many different types of memory installed on a single running system. There was main system ...

Linux is generally lightweight, but which Linux distro uses the least amount of RAM? We explored various options, and here are the winners.

I've been using a minimal install of FreeBSD as a file server lately, and while I'm happy with it, I decided to try out Debian as well (just to learn more about Linux). What surprised me is that ...