In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

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 ...

Cross-platform software is the norm today. In many cases, developers don't have to consider what operating system their apps will be deployed on, because apps tend to be more or less platform-agnostic ...

This fifth lesson on RTOS finally addresses the real-time aspect of the “Real-Time Operating System” name. Specifically, in the video lesson 26, you add a preemptive, priority-based scheduler to the ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

[Sergey Lyubka] put together this epic guide for bare-metal microcontroller programming. While the general concepts should be applicable to most any microcontroller, [Sergey]s examples specifically ...

The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and ...

PubMatic, an AI-powered ad tech company, today introduced PubMatic AgenticOS, an operating system designed to orchestrate autonomous, agent-to-agent advertising execution across premium digital ...

The tech giant will begin selling its first cell phone based on Linux this year and says most models will follow suit--a sign of the growing popularity of the operating system. Stephen Shankland ...