Debian has traditionally favored AppArmor for its simplicity and ease of integration. However, SELinux support is fully ...

Advanced Linux networking empowers sysadmins and engineers to build scalable, resilient, and performance-tuned ...

While SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is another MAC system popular on Red Hat-based distributions, AppArmor is often ...

Linux Journal, representing 25+ years of publication, is the original magazine of the global Open Source community.

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Software and hardware engineers who have to deal with byte and bit order issues know the process is like walking a maze. Though ...

In the beginning, there were mainframes. Every program and piece of data was stored in a single almighty machine. Users could access this centralized computer only by means of dumb terminals. (See ...

ALSA stands for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. It consists of a set of kernel drivers, an application programming interface (API) library and utility programs for supporting sound under Linux.

The libferris Project began in early 2001 in order to create a virtual filesystem operating as a shared library. Many tree-like structures are presented through a single filesystem interface by ...

The Matrix is a USB bill validator, sometimes known as a note reader or bill acceptor, made by Validation Technologies International. The bundled software was developed for Microsoft Windows, but ...

Due to the complexity of developing and maintaining the kernel, only the most essential and performance-critical code are placed in the kernel. Other things, such as GUI, management and control code, ...

If you usually work with non-trivial C sources, you may have wondered which execution path (that is, which sequence of function calls) brought you to a certain point in your program. Also, it would be ...