In this excerpt, Chapter 9, from the book, the author describes how kernel device drivers interact with system hardware and how developers can write device drivers and use them in their applications.

One thing I didn’t think about when I left Windows for Linux was how I would customize the RGB lighting on gaming PC’s fans.

PulseAudio brought some really nice features to Linux, like moving sound streams between devices and dynamically resampling streams as needed. The other side of the Linux audio coin is JACK.

A newly discovered cryptomining worm is stepping up its targeting of Windows and Linux devices with a batch of new exploits and capabilities, a researcher said. Research company Juniper started ...

It's still all love between Microsoft and Linux as Lenovo confirms the company is not blocking laptops from installing the operating system.

I've recently become interested in a Windows driver called HttpDisk which allows mounting of disk images over HTTP. The closest thing I could find for Linux was NBD (Network Block Device). Is ...

Because /dev/random is a blocking device, it will hold off until there is sufficient entropy to produce truly random data. Unfortunately, the entropy pool on a computer is finite.

A new destructive malware named AcidPour was spotted in the wild, featuring data-wiper functionality and targeting Linux x86 IoT and networking devices.

A remote NVMe block device exported via an NVMe over Fabrics network using TCP. Version 5.0 of the Linux kernel brought with it many wonderful features, one of which was the introduction of NVMe over ...

Taiwanese hardware vendor QNAP warns most of its Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are impacted by a high severity Linux vulnerability dubbed 'Dirty Pipe' that allows attackers with local ...