Linux is a superset of the POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for X) specification. It runs on commodity PC hardware, MIPS systems, Suns, Macintoshes and even IBM mainframes. It's sufficiently ...

One amazing thing about Linux is that the same code base is used for a different range of computing systems, from supercomputers to very tiny embedded devices. If you stop for a second and think about ...

Makefiles are used by Make, which automates build processes via makefiles to compile code efficiently. Makefiles consist of rules with targets, dependencies, and actions. Makefiles require indentation ...

GNU makefiles let your small business put out source code that can adapt its compilation to a specific client's machine, and preemptively detect problems or unmet software dependencies. Checking to ...