Signals on Unix systems are critical to the way processes live and die. This article looks at how they're generated, how they work, and how processes receive or block them. On Unix systems, there are ...

This month, I thought it would be interesting to take a bit of a detour from my usual multi-month programming projects and instead focus on a specific topic that is of great importance to people ...

MontaVista Software has signed a new customer, Peek Traffic, which will use the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's embedded Linux software to run traffic signal controllers designed for European ...

I am about to hook up a serial remote to an old box which will become the mp3 decoder for my stereo.<BR><BR>Currently the laptop is running win2k server, but I was wondering if there is a linux distro ...