Since 2004 and for what seems like forever in the technology world, the Linux kernel version has been holding steady at version 2.6.x. The first two numbers were unchanged for nearly 7 years and became largely irrelevant. The third number is the actual version of the kernel. The fourth number accounts for bug and security [...]

There are 2 files available on a Linux system which will give a user a wealth of information about a system. These files, /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/meminfo are written by the Linux kernel and tell you important details about your cpu and memory. Both files are read-only and can be viewed with any text editor. This [...]

Updating your kernel is important if you want to take advantage of new hardware support or bleeding edge features.  Aside from these obvious benefits it also allows you to keep up with security patches, system optimization, and overall stability issues. The first thing you have to do is emerge the latest gentoo-sources package. # emerge [...]

For backwards compatibility, many Linux distributions support both the older LinuxThreads implementation as well as the newer Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL). By setting the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable you can tell the dynamic linker to assume that it is running on top of a particular kernel version. This will override the dynamic linker’s default choice [...]