The mouse and keyboard setup may be the standard way to game on PC, but as more and more multiplatform games come to computers, there is a growing number of PC games that work better with a controller ...

There have been debates of Windows and Linux over the years about supported hardware and device drivers. Mostly the debates have come down to these facts: - Support for hardware in Windows is ...

The Linux USB subsystem has grown from supporting only two different types of devices in the 2.2.7 kernel (mice and keyboards), to over 20 different types of devices in the 2.4 kernel. Linux currently ...

Platforms You don't need to wait for SteamOS to ditch Windows: I've been running Linux for the past 2 months and the revolution is already here Graphics Cards AMD's FSR 4 open source whoopsie-daisy ...

With newer GeForce GPUs, Linux distributions will use a driver for OpenGL applications that hands over the actual work to a Vulkan driver. In future, Linux distributions will rely on the "Zink" driver ...

In previous articles, we looked at how to configure the kernel as well as the key components of an embedded operating system (OS). This new article focuses on the hardware components of embedded Linux ...

The “hid-sony” driver has been available on Linux for a while. According to Phoronix, Sony has released a new “hid-playstation” driver today to include support for DualSense controllers, as well as ...

Linux has taken the embedded marketplace by storm. According to industry analysts, one-third to one-half of new embedded 32- and 64-bit designs employ Linux. Embedded Linux already dominates multiple ...

Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...