Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them before ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

Here in the Paranoid Penguin column, we're in the midst of building a virtual network server using User-Mode Linux. Last month, I explained why this is a good idea, how it works, how to prepare your ...

This course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux kernel drivers for Embedded devices. The Yocto build system is introduced, which ...

Following the massive Windows outage in July caused by a defective CrowdStrike update, Microsoft is working on a way to allow security products to ‘run in user mode just as apps do,’ Microsoft’s David ...

There's growing interest in a new type of software for Linux machines called BPF, which allows the user to run a program in the kernel and enjoy "observability super powers", according to Brendan ...