New article: Dynamic Program Analysis on Linux Using Valgrind

Did you have any memory problems with your applications recently? Wild accesses, improperly initialized variables, memory leaks, illegal fre...Read more »

Linux and its Collaboration Explained (Video)

I can recommend this video giving a quick intro to what Linux is and does today as well as how it's built, though there's probably n...Read more »

Optimizing Code for Small Size

Many people know the -Os flag of gcc to reduce the code size. Now a while ago Benno posted some tipps to reduce the size of a compiled progr...Read more »

Using a Linux Driver for a Device that is not yet supported without recompiling

If you have  a new shiny webcam or some other device you want to use in Linux, here is a quick short guide how you can have it runnig within...Read more »

Kindle 3 Discovery Tour: Kernel Config, Processes, Programs, Modules, /proc, cpuinfo, dmesg, meminfo, mounts, fstab and other Inside Information (Firmware 3.1)

There doesn't seem to be a copy of the Kindle 3.1 kernel config file on the internet yet. So I will put it online here. Also I will list...Read more »

Minimal Powertop as Bash Script esp. for Embedded Environments

I wrote this for my kindle and android devices. It's a nice, easy script though and should be great especially for embedded environments...Read more »

Rzip - A new compression star is born

Remember when Bzip first came out and out-compressed Gzip\? Well, then came LZMA with another significant increase in compression ration a b...Read more »

Is the Linux Desktop getting slower and more bloated?

In his "failure of logic" post "K. Mandla" writes that the Linux Desktop is not getting faster even though all the hard...Read more »

0.4 Watt Less During Audio Playback - (Updated:) Power Performance: Pulseaudio + Interrupt-Less Alsa

( Skip to the update ) Ok, so with some help from Pierre-Louis from Intel I've managed to get it working and do some performance/power t...Read more »

The Linux Kernel Trojan Horse Gift

Linus describes how he prefers new features to be introduced to Linux: In other words, every new crazy feature should be hidden in a nice s...Read more »

Why it's a problem that Ubuntu spinned off of Debian

Check out this great article .Read more »

Debugging Alsa HDA Audio

If you're using the snd-hda-intel module and you've got audio problems, you might want to try out manually using a specific model, t...Read more »

Testing the Development Kernel in Ubuntu

Testing the bleeding edge development kernel from Linus' git tree has never been easier. You can now download precompiled debian package...Read more »

What's New in Linux v. 2.6.28

Heise's got a nice article about what's new, what's hot, what's not in the not yet quite released 2.6.28.Read more »

Apple's Lock-In Syndrome

Apple is locking iPhone users into their rigid software framework through the App Store: They would not let people develop interfaces to Gma...Read more »

Rude Linus Torvals

If you ever wondered why people say the kernel developers are sometimes very rude, check out this article , referring to a post by Linus hi...Read more »

Automated Linux Kernel Testing

I'm currently always using the current git kernel. And my thought is: Why isn't there some tool available to automatically tell the ...Read more »

Arjan van de Ven Interview

As I mentioned in my last post, O'Reilly interviewed him and it's a quite interesting read. I only disagree on one point. He says ...Read more »

Chrome Developer's Channel

There's now a Chrome Developer's Channel available with automatically installed bleeding-edge versions of Chrome.Read more »

The Great Sysctl Mystery

Most advanced Linux users with know the sysctl interface for fine-tuning the Linux kernel. But there is probably noone on earth who really u...Read more »