A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

I am going to show you how to compile a C++ program on Linux. I’ll demonstrate it on Ubuntu Desktop 23.04, I’ll use the tried and true Hello, World! app as an example.

This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7). Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...

Modern Linux systems will have lots of daemons running in the background, especially on servers. Even on desktop systems, ...

69 getch(); 70 endwin(); Compiling and Sample Output Now that you have your first sample curses program, it's time to compile and run it. Remember that Linux systems implement the curses functionality ...

For example Adobe Photoshop, Maya, 3ds Max, AutoCAD. Probably because partly those need tight tie-in with graphics card software, and video card drivers don't have a great history with Linux.

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

Solo's new open-source program BumbleBee will make it much easier to build Linux eBPF programs. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Jan. 6, 2022 at 1:52 p.m. PT ...