Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Each Linux command returns an exit code, with 0 indicating success and non-zero values indicating failure. You can use the $? variable to access the exit code and control program flow in scripts.

An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. By Michelle Delio.

Linux and Unix arrange things so that multiple running instances of the same program share their code if possible; only one copy of the instructions for the same program resides in memory at any time.

YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code ...

And the great thing about eBPF is that it’s as fast as regular kernel code given eBPF is not a sandbox but the program is fully understood by the verifier to determine whether it’s safe to run ...

The program is written in Python and currently is limited to analyzing Python--thus the name PyMetrics--but the principles can be extended to any language. By writing the code in Python, you should be ...

Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot ...

There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem ...