Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program(serversfor.dev)

235 points by birdculture 10 months ago | 72 comments

OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One(zbruceli.org)

4 points by zbruceli 21 days ago | 0 comments

Long-form blog profile of OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt, covering his NetBSD exit, lost DARPA grant, and security-focused philosophy.

Building Linux kernel on macOS natively(seiya.me)

21 points by ingve 1 year ago | 3 comments

A first dip into OS kernel development with xv6 and the 6.1810 labs(jannestimm.com)

39 points by jannesan 2 years ago | 4 comments

Emulating PPC64 Inside Docker(blog.michael.kuron-germany.de)

21 points by zdw 3 years ago | 0 comments

Being blocked from contributing to lodash(c.ruatta.com)

69 points by crtns 1 year ago | 32 comments

Booting Linux off of Google Drive(ersei.net)

396 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 160 comments

A blog post describing how the author got Linux to boot with its root filesystem mounted from Google Drive via FUSE.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide(sysprog21.github.io)

340 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 26 comments

Online edition of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Salzman, Burian, Pomerantz, Mottram and Huang, with GitHub source and PDF download.

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers(crescentro.se)

457 points by sbt567 1 year ago | 63 comments

Blog post recounting how the author wrote a basic Linux USB driver for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock using protocol docs from Nanoleaf support.

Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01(seiya.me)

458 points by ingve 3 years ago | 112 comments

A blog post walking through the source code and internals of Linux v0.01, the roughly 10,000-line first release of the Linux kernel.