In this excerpt, Chapter 9, from the book, the author describes how kernel device drivers interact with system hardware and how developers can write device drivers and use them in their applications.

Using lsblk The lsblk (list block devices) command displays information on block devices (storage devices that hold data in the form of blocks) – both hard drives and solid state drives.

A remote NVMe block device exported via an NVMe over Fabrics network using TCP. Version 5.0 of the Linux kernel brought with it many wonderful features, one of which was the introduction of NVMe over ...

PulseAudio brought some really nice features to Linux, like moving sound streams between devices and dynamically resampling streams as needed. The other side of the Linux audio coin is JACK.

I've recently become interested in a Windows driver called HttpDisk which allows mounting of disk images over HTTP. The closest thing I could find for Linux was NBD (Network Block Device). Is ...

Lenovo does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems such as Linux on Yoga or any of its devices and is fully committed to providing Linux certifications and installation ...