A structured course built from personal study notes of the book Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb. Each module breaks down the core concepts, commands, and practical examples in plain English — straightforward enough for beginners, detailed enough to actually … Read more
Security Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’ Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has declared the project’s security mailing list has become “almost entirely unmanageable” due to multiple researchers … Read more
Have you ever wondered what really happens between the moment you press the power button and the moment your login screen shows up? That gap—usually some seconds—hides one of the most intricate initialization sequences in computing. Today I want to … Read more
☕ Welcome to The Coder Cafe! On April 3, 2026, Salvatore Dipietro, an engineer at AWS, posted a patch to the Linux kernel mailing list. The reason: on a 96-vCPU Graviton4 machine running Linux 7.0, PostgreSQL throughput had dropped to … Read more
After almost three years of 6.x series kernels, Linux 7.0 is finally here. That means it’s also time for another Asahi progress report! Automate Everything Users of alternate distros and keen-eyed individuals may have noticed some changes to the Asahi … Read more
FIM NEWS — history of main user-visible changes in FIM. Version 0.7.1 A release with small fixes at build, test, and runtime: * Documentation and self-documentation improved and updated * Command “help ‘/str'” will also search on occurrences of ‘str’ … Read more
Run Linux containers on Android — no root required. Podroid spins up a lightweight Alpine Linux VM on your phone using QEMU and gives you a fully working Podman container runtime with a built-in serial terminal. Highlights Containers Pull and … Read more
And why you would want to exec a cpio 2026-03-28 06:33 Linux kexec boot recursion quine elf This is a standalone addendum to an earlier four-part series. Reading the previous parts is not required. Links to previous parts, if you … Read more
How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd` 2026-03-24 02:10 Linux http To replace your Linux installation with a new OS, you can download a pre-prepared disk image directly to your disk by running a command like … Read more
This repository holds the code from Linux Application Development By Example – The Fundamental APIs by Arnold Robbins. Copyright (c) 2004, 2026, Pearson Education. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-532552-0 ISBN-10: 0-13-532552-8 The Documents directory holds documents of interest, including the license for code … Read more