In order to correctly reproduce the colors encoded in a video (or a still image for that matter) you need to know the colorspace information associated with the video. But what exactly is a colorspace and what is the nformation that describes how color is encoded?...
Desktop and laptop PCs designed to run Windows will now only run a boot loader signed by Microsoft or by their manufacturer, unless manually reconfigured. Several Linux distributions now include the necessary chain of signed code, but for various reasons Debian...
I have always wondered what happens when we enter the kernel from userspace: what preparations does the hardware meet when the userspace to kernel space switch instructions are executed and back, and what does the kernel do when it executes a system call. There are...
The Linux kernel features an extensive array of, to put it kindly, somewhat disorganized documentation. A significant effort is underway to make things better, though. This talk will review the state of kernel documentation, cover the changes that are being made...
