Do you see any isssues with running TDNS completely from tmpfs on linux? I currently have my /tmp directory set up as tmpfs and I have this in the /etc/systemd/system ...

Out of all the operating systems in existence, Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is the most frowned upon, and there are a few reasons for the same. While overall adaptability, software support, and ...

On Saturday, the Debian developers plan to publish the next release of the Linux distribution. As usual, Debian is catching up with the update to version 13 "Trixie" in terms of the software versions ...

Linus Torvalds has announced the first Release Candidate (RC) for Linux kernel 6.14, marking the beginning of public testing. This release comes two weeks after the debut of the Linux 6.13 kernel and ...

Currently the linux kernel still expands holes when touching the pages of an mmap()ed sparse file in tmpfs, ref. I used audit-rules to track down which process was ...

Abstract: The Rowhammer bug is a novel micro-architectural security threat, enabling powerful privilege-escalation attacks on various mainstream platforms. It works by actively flipping bits in ...

The conversation around gaming on Linux has changed significantly during the last several years. It’s a success story engineered by passionate developers working on the Linux kernel and the ...

An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented malicious code from spreading into widely-used versions of Linux via a compression format called XZ Utils. An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented ...

The df command provides information on file system usage, but includes quite a few options. This post examines the differences and makes some suggestions about when you should use which of the two ...

The Linux Mint community has once again released a top-tier Linux desktop: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia. I've used more Linux distributions than most people, and Mint is my favorite desktop distro. My ...