Linux

The Linux Programming Interface book seems nice so as the many resources found here. Cobbler & NixOS seem nice.

Distributions

• Alpine Linux - Security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. (GitHub)
• Ubuntu - Enterprise Open Source and Linux.
• Arch Linux - Simple, lightweight distribution. (Arch Linux Install Script)
• KISS (Code) (HN)
• Snakeware - Free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace. (HN)
• Oasis - Small statically-linked linux system. (Lobsters) (HN)
• Liquorix - Distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads. (Why use it)
• NixOS
• Bedrock Linux - Meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions.
• TinyCore Linux - Micro Core Linux, 12MB Linux GUI Desktop, Live, Frugal, Extendable. (HN)
• HiFiBerryOS - Minimal Linux distribution optimized for audio playback.
• Rocky Linux - Community-driven, enterprise-ready OS. (Code) (Website Code) (Infrastructure) (HN) (HN)
• Debian (Ultimate Debian Database) (HN) (HN 2) (Debian Reference)
• Fedora
• Manjaro
• Gentoo - Highly flexible, source-based Linux distribution. (Gentoo Packages)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Glacies - Linux distribution using Eltanin userspace.
• Lakka - Lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown game console. (Web)
• LibreELEC - Linux distribution for the award-winning Kodi software on popular mediacentre hardware. (Web)
• GoboLinux - Alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. (HN)
• Garuda Linux (HN)
• Chimera Linux - Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM. (HN)
• CBL-Mariner - Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances.
• Iglunix - Linux (and other kernels) distro with no GNU components.
• GoboLinux - Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy. (HN)
• Minimal Linux Live - Tiny educational Linux distribution, which is designed to be built from scratch by using a collection of automated shell scripts. (Web)
• elementary OS - Thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS. (GitHub) (elementary OS is imploding (2022)) (HN)
• qinit - Linux distribution built from scratch in Rust.

WM

• i3 - Tiling WM. Faster than xmonad.
• i3-gaps - Tiling window manager for X11.
• XMonad - Automated Tiling WM. (HN)
• river - Dynamic tiling wayland compositor.
• Sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor.
• StumpWM - Tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.
• Luke's build of dwm

Launchers

• rofi - Window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement.
• Albert - Fast and flexible keyboard launcher. (Web) (HN)

Games

• Wine - Compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications.
• Lutris - Open gaming platform for Linux.

Other

• Nix - Purely functional package manager.
• Thunar - Modern file manager.
• Mopidy - Extensible music server.
• MPV - Free, open source, and cross-platform media player. (Code) (HN)
• Tilix - Tiling terminal emulator.
• fwupd - Simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware.
• linux-inject - Tool for injecting a shared object into a Linux process.
• xkeysnail - Keyboard remapping tool for X environment.
• Kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux and Windows. (HN)
• Map2 - Scripting language that allows complex key remapping on Linux.
• warpd - Modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer.

Links

• Linux insides
• Linux Kernel Newbies
• The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds
• Ricing Resources
• HN: Linux: IO without entering the kernel (2018)
• Linux Hardening Guide (HN) (Lobsters)
• The Practical Linux Hardening Guide (Web)
• libfuse - Reference implementation of the Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) interface.
• Darling - Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux. (Web) (HN) (HN 2) (HN)
• How To Secure A Linux Server
• State of Linux on the MacBook Pro
• Sampling CPU profiler for Linux similar to perf
• If you wanted to go from zero to Linux kernel hacker, what route would you take? (2019)
• instantbox - Get a clean, ready-to-go Linux box in seconds.
• Simple KVM firmware - Contains a simple KVM firmware that is designed to be launched from anything that supports loading ELF binaries and running them with the Linux kernel loading standard.
• Linux distros without systemd (2019) (HN)
• Show HN: ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks (HN)
• The Definitive Guide to Linux System Calls (2016) (HN)
• The Linux Programming Interface - Detailed guide and reference for Linux and UNIX system programming.
• Karabinux - Attempt to port (as much as possible) the functionality of Karabiner Elements to Linux.
• syzkaller - Unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer.
• What's the best approach to learn Linux and its internals? (2019)
• htop explained - Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux.
• BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more.
• Linux Kernel Defence Map
• RustyBox - Free-range, non-GMO fork of busybox in 100% Rust. (HN)
• Linux Systems Performance (2019) (Lobsters)
• fscrypt - Go tool for managing Linux filesystem encryption.
• Your Linux Toolbox: a box set of my free zines (2019)
• rustysd - Minimal drop-in for (a subset of) the systemd init system in rust.
• yay - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go.
• Embedded Linux course (2019)
• heaptrack - Heap memory profiler for Linux.
• u-root - Fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.
• ZFS on Linux - Advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community.
• Linux kernel scheduler (2015)
• Setting up a Linux Workstation for Software Development (2019)
• Boot your custom Kernel: Quick and dirty way (2018)
• IBus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix.
• 40 Linux Server Hardening Security Tips (2019)
• What Linux distro should I use for a hosted server (DO or AWS?) to run services from (go binaries and software)? (2020)
• "Kernel hacking like it's 2020" - Russell Currey
• Various notes for my linux desktop projects by Devine (Code)
• Using cgroups to limit I/O (2017)
• Linux Programming Interface book (2010)
• Linux and UNIX programming training and consulting by Michael Kerrisk
• Hotspot - Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.
• Taffybar - Gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad.
• HN: Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years (2020)
• Memory profiler for Linux
• NEXTSPACE - Desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux.
• GameMode - Optimise Linux system performance on demand.
• Linux Kernel Lectures and Labs (HN)
• Pretty and functional linux/unix desktop for former Mac users/Design freaks
• Ask HN: How can a intermediate-beginner learn Unix/Linux and programming? (2020)
• systemd - System and Service Manager. (Web)
• Speeding up Linux disk encryption (2020) (HN)
• Multipass - Lightweight VM manager for Linux, Windows and macOS. It's designed for developers who want a fresh Ubuntu environment with a single command.
• A "living" Linux process with no memory (HN)
• kmon - Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor.
• Subuser - Run programs on linux with selectively restricted permissions.
• nohang - Sophisticated low memory handler for Linux.
• Firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox. Sandbox Linux Applications. (HN) (HN)
• rust.ko - Minimal Linux kernel module written in rust.
• What's your distro, and how did you pick it? (2020)
• Intermediate Linux command line tutorial (2017)
• Operating Systems Without Systemd (2020) (HN)
• Hunting a Linux kernel bug (2020) (HN)
• bashtop - Linux resource monitor.
• systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• The CPU Cost of Networking on a Host (2020)
• Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux's Dominance (2020) (HN)
• The CPU Cost of Networking on a Host — David Ahern (2020)
• bpftrace - High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF.
• Barrier - Share mouse and keyboard between computers. (HN)
• Linux Productivity Tools (2019) (HN)
• Using the KVM API
• LWN.net - Reader-supported news site dedicated to producing the best coverage from within the Linux and free software development communities.
• KVM host in a few lines of code (2020)
• My Arch Linux Setup (2020)
• LKML.ORG - Linux Kernel Mailing List archive.
• lockdown.sh - Lockdown your linux install. The simple zero config linux hardening script.
• Rampage - Linux memory scanner/editor written in python.
• Lobsters: Linux Sucks 2020 (HN)
• sudo_pair - Plugin for sudo that requires another human to approve and monitor privileged sudo sessions.
• TuxURLs - Simple Linux news aggregator.
• Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks (2020)
• Main Linux problems on the desktop (2020 edition) (Lobsters) (HN)
• ktrl - Linux keyboard programming daemon. It aims to aid you in the never-ending quest of achieving the ultimate keybinding setup.
• Compilation of Linux server benchmarking scripts
• Why I Use Suckless Tools (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• RTLinux - Hard realtime real-time operating system microkernel that runs the entire Linux operating system as a fully preemptive process.
• Running Linux on my Macbook (2020) (HN)
• Interactive Map of Linux Kernel (Code) (HN) (Code)
• Wayfire - 3D wayland compositor.
• Waysmoke - Upcoming desktop shell, built primarily for the Wayfire compositor.
• Weylus - Turns your tablet or smart phone into a graphic tablet/touch screen for your computer. (HN)
• whatfiles - Log what files are accessed by any Linux process.
• pspy - Monitor linux processes without root permissions.
• Linux kernel crash utility
• Computers Barely Work - Interview with Linux Legend Greg Kroah-Hartman (2020)
• Maloader - Userland Mach-O loader for linux.
• Linux System calls table for several architectures (Code)
• lpe - Collection of verified Linux kernel exploits.
• Linux Terminal Tools
• Regolith - Modern desktop environment designed to let you work faster by reducing unnecessary clutter and ceremony.
• Ward - Simple and and minimalistic server monitoring tool. (HN)
• What to do after installing Arch Linux: My advice to a new user (2020)
• Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections (2020) (HN)
• How does Linux's display work?
• Sandboxing in Linux with zero lines of code (2020) (Lobsters)
• Linux Impressions (2020) (Lobsters)
• Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why? (2020)
• Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone (2020) (HN)
• NoiseTorch - Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux. (HN)
• Low latency tuning guide (HN)
• eBPF (HN)
• How the ARM32 Linux kernel decompresses (2020)
• Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (HN) (Code)
• Switching From i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04 (2020) (Lobsters)
• Articles on BPF
• Lobsters: A Case against Wayland
• How the ARM32 kernel starts (2020)
• The design of lock_sock() in Linux kernel (2018) (Tweet)
• On Kernel-Bypass Networking and Programmable Packet Processing (2018)
• How Executables Work on Linux (2020)
• Aboriginal Linux - Toolkit for building custom virtual machines.
• Ventoy - Open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/EFI files. (Web)
• Linux Kernel Modules Developments
• Introduction to Linux commands and Shell scripting
• Linux From Scratch (HN) (HN)
• The Linux development process: Is it worth the hassle? (2020)
• How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (2018) (HN)
• Introduction to Linux Server Administration
• How does who work on Linux? (2020)
• Clean ALSA documentation (Lobsters)
• An introduction to Linux kernel initcalls (2020) (Part 2)
• Unlocking eBPF power (2020)
• Linux interview questions
• Durability: Linux File APIs (2020) (HN)
• The Year of the Linux dissatisfaction (2020)
• Learning Linux Kernel internals
• The Difficulties of Tracking Running Processes on Linux (2020)
• Minimalistic rEFInd theme - rEFInd is an easy to use boot manager for UEFI based systems.
• rEFInd EFI Boot Manager
• LFS, round #1 (2020) (Lobsters)
• Sysmon - Graphical system monitor for linux.
• Linux Commands frequently used by Linux Sysadmins (2020)
• Core Wayland protocol and libraries
• Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem (2020)
• Looking Glass - Open source application that allows the use of a KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) configured for VGA PCI Pass-through without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse. (Code)
• eBPF Summit 2020 (HN)
• What's in a Linux executable? (2020) (HN)
• Paru - AUR helper and pacman wrapper.
• rkvm - Virtual KVM switch for Linux machines.
• Are we Wayland yet? (Lobsters) (Code)
• The Linux Commands Handbook (HN)
• Anatomy of a Binary Executable (2020) (HN)
• Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (2018)
• What is eBPF? | How eBPF works (2020)
• Life and Death of a Linux Process (2020) (HN)
• A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups (2020) (HN)
• Dash Dash - Linux Man Pages. Resource for linux documentation and general programming with an emphasis on design. (Lobsters)
• Arch Conf 2020 (HN)
• OpenBMC - Open software framework to build a complete Linux image for a Board Management Controller (BMC).
• Keynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel (2020)
• eBPF – The Future of Networking and Security (2020) (HN)
• Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide
• Debugging Linux Kernel with QEMU (2020)
• Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020
• How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home (2020) (HN)
• Linux Command One-Liners (HN)
• Threads and fork(): think twice before mixing them (2009)
• eBPF - Rethinking the Linux Kernel (2020)
• Linux App Summit 2020
• Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) (HN)
• My First Kernel Module: A Debugging Nightmare (2020) (HN)
• Moving from Macbook to Linux (2020) (HN)
• Linux Observability with BPF Book (2019) (Code)
• Winding down my Debian involvement (2019) (HN)
• High System Load with Low CPU Utilization on Linux? (2020)
• LinuxBoot - Replace specific firmware functionality with a Linux kernel and runtime. (GitHub)
• LinuxBoot Book
• Jailhouse - Linux-based partitioning hypervisor.
• perf-tools - Performance analysis tools based on Linux perf_events (aka perf) and ftrace.
• Welder - Set up your Linux server with plain shell scripts.
• Linux Kernel Documentation
• Linux Kernel Management Style
• The State of Linux Debuggers (HN) (Lobsters)
• Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured KVM
• Entry-level Linux Ricing
• Static calls in Linux 5.10 (2020) (HN)
• eBPF is awesome (2020) (HN)
• Linux Distribution Timeline
• Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs. (Twitter) (Web) (HN) (Docs)
• Community Chat #1 - Asahi Linux Project (2020)
• Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces - Introduction into design and creation of graphical user interfaces using the GTK widget tool kit and the Nim programming language. (HN)
• systemd user services (2021) (Lobsters)
• libseccomp - C library that provides an easy to use, platform independent, interface to the Linux Kernel's syscall filtering mechanism.
• When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux (HN)
• Arch manual pages (Code) (Search) (Browse)
• XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Linux kernel modules in safe Rust
• Rust KVM firmware - Designed to be launched from anything that supports loading ELF binaries and running them with the Linux kernel loading standard.
• RUA - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options.
• BPF and Go: Modern forms of introspection in Linux (2020)
• KVM-VMI - KVM-based Virtual Machine Introspection. (Docs)
• Network Performance in the Linux Kernel (2021)
• Should You Write a Wayland Compositor? (2021)
• wlroots - Modular Wayland compositor library.
• Getting better at Linux with mini-projects (2020) (HN)
• Making Sense of The Audio Stack On Unix (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• The Wayland Protocol Book
• Linux memory management FAQ
• Using eBPF to uncover in-memory loading (2021)
• 2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop (Lobsters)
• Traitor - Linux privilege escalation made easy. (HN)
• Linux Capabilities in a nutshell (2019) (Lobsters) (HN)
• systemd: Boot Loader Specification
• Why bother between choosing of distros and desktops theme when the Linuxs they are similar and you can customize them? (2021)
• Qubes-lite with KVM and Wayland (2021)
• An Introduction to Linux Kernel Exploitation (2021)
• Buildroot - Making Embedded Linux Easy. (HN)
• Outrun - Execute local command using processing power of another Linux machine. (HN)
• Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices.
• Exploring Linux File System (2021)
• What are people's current preferred tools for configuring a Linux server entirely out of a version control repository? (2021)
• Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc
• Wayland Explorer - Wayland Protocol Documentation. (Code)
• Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation? (2021)
• The Motivation Behind Systemd (HN)
• rund - Run arbitrary containerized Linux processes over gRPC with mTLS auth.
• ELKDAT - Easy linux kernel development and test tool.
• Graphene - Linux-compatible Library OS for Multi-Process Applications. (Web)
• I Implemented /dev/printerfact in Rust (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Kernel Recipes 2017 - Perf in Netflix - Brendan Gregg
• How Linux Works Book
• Awesome Wayland
• Beyond process supervisors
• An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git (2021)
• The Linux Documentation Project - Good, reliable documentation for the Linux operating system. (HN)
• ArchWiki - Arch Linux Wiki.
• Ask HN: What are the best maintained how-to sites for Linux? (2021)
• Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM) (HN)
• BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) Docs - Technology used in certain computer operating systems for programs that need to, among other things, analyze network traffic.
• KVM Fuzz - Emulate and fuzz x86_64 binaries using KVM.
• BPF performance analysis at Netflix (2019)
• Dropping cache didn’t drop cache (2021) (HN)
• Praise for Alpine Linux (2021) (HN)
• Linux Kernel Commit History Search - Instantly search 1M Linux Kernel Commit Messages using Typesense Search. (Code)
• Alpine Conference
• Systemd: The Good Parts (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• New service manager for Linux distributions (2021)
• Hummingbird - Lightning fast Linux init.
• File Descriptor Limits (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Fuzzing the Linux kernel (2021)
• Rust heads into the kernel? (2021) (HN)
• rbpf - Rust virtual machine and JIT compiler for eBPF programs.
• An Abridged Guide to the Enterprise Linux Landscape (2021)
• My Linux machine setup
• A process murder mystery - a debugging story (2021)
• A Secure and Formally Verified Linux KVM Hypervisor (2021)
• static-get - Portable binaries for Linux.
• Using signalfd and pidfd to make signals less painful under Linux (2021)
• io_uring By Example: An Article Series (2020)
• LK Embedded Kernel - SMP-aware kernel designed for small systems ported to a variety of platforms and CPU architectures.
• io_uring is not an event system (2021) (HN)
• Linux Commands Cheat Sheet 2021
• Pulling GitHub into the Linux kernel process (2021) (HN)
• Introduction to eBPF (2021)
• Linux Network Examples
• Avoiding Complexity with Systemd (2021) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Understanding thread stack sizes and how alpine is different (2021)
• The 7 most used Linux namespaces (2021)
• How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product (2021) (HN)
• CVE-2021-22555: Turning \x00\x00 into 10000$ (2021) (HN)
• Introduction to CRIU and Live migration (2020)
• Jumping into journald (2021)
• Native Journal Protocol
• Let's talk about Wayland (2021) (Lobsters)
• systemd socket activation (2021) (Lobsters)
• Custom eBPF Helpers (2021)
• Wiser - Minimal hypervisor boots Linux VM. Written in C. (HN)
• Mobian - Debian for Mobile. (HN)
• Kernel Pwning with eBPF: a Love Story (2021)
• bustd - Lightweight process killer daemon for out-of-memory scenarios for Linux.
• buztd - Zig version of the original bustd project.
• oomd - Userspace Out-Of-Memory (OOM) killer for linux systems.
• Back to Linux (2021) (HN) (Lobsters)
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (Code) (HN)
• InitWare - Fork of systemd. Allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. (Lobsters)
• earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux.
• docker-alpine - Official Alpine Linux Docker image. Win at minimalism.
• Provision an Ubuntu-based EC2 instance with CDK (2021)
• DebConf21 Schedule
• I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple (2021) (HN)
• PatchELF - Small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables.
• Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS? (2021)
• Switching to the i3 window manager (2021) (Lobsters)
• Witchery - Build distroless images with alpine tools. (Article)
• Use of eBPF in CPU Scheduler (2021) (HN)
• sysz - fzf terminal UI for systemctl.
• BMC (BPF Memory Cache) - In-kernel cache based on eBPF.
• below - Time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems.
• PF_RING - High-speed packet processing framework. (Web)
• SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache
• Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux (2021) (HN)
• Install Alpine Linux in chroot
• Btop++ - Power resource monitor for Linux. (HN) (Article)
• A terminal case of Linux (2021)
• Toybox - All-in-one Linux command line. (HN)
• Linux Kernel Module Cheat - Perfect emulation setup to study and develop the Linux kernel.
• Inspecting coredumps like it's 2021 (HN)
• Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request (2021)
• LXD - Next generation system container and virtual machine manager. It offers a unified user experience around full Linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines. (Web)
• Linux perf Profiler UIs (2021)
• Linux.org.ru - Русская информация об ОС Linux.
• Moving Google toward the mainline (2021) (HN)
• Dockerfile examples for containerized systemd
• Taming the BPF Superpowers (2021) (HN)
• Linux from scratch using virtual machines on a Apple Mac M1 laptop
• So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? (2021) (HN)
• Memory-Model Recommendations for Rusting the Linux Kernel (2021)
• Beginner's Guide to eBPF Programming for Networking
• How does apt render its fancy progress bar? (2021) (HN)
• rust-vmm Community - Open-source project that empowers the community to build custom Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) and hypervisors.
• Learning Modern Linux - Handbook for the Cloud Native Practitioner. (Code) (Book)
• pwru - Packet, where are you? -- Linux kernel networking debugger.
• How a simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise (2021)
• Rust for Linux - Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
• LinuxKit - Toolkit for building custom minimal, immutable Linux distributions.
• Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux (2021) (HN)
• live-bootstrap - Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process.
• Dropwatch - Diagnose problems in the Linux Networking stack. Diagnose where packets are getting dropped.
• Moving Google toward the mainline (2021) (HN)
• proot-rs - Rust implementation of PRoot, a ptrace-based sandbox.
• finit - Fast init for Linux systems. (Web)
• Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14 (2021) (HN)
• Leaving Debian With Joey Hess (2021) (HN)
• AppImage - Linux apps that run anywhere. (Awesome)
• Dynamic Kernel Module System (DKMS)
• PREVAIL - Polynomial-Runtime EBPF Verifier using an Abstract Interpretation Layer.
• difuze - Fuzzer for Linux Kernel Drivers.
• Liblinux - C library that provides architecture-independent access to Linux system calls. (HN)
• BPF Linker - Simple BPF static linker.
• NetNS Exec - Simple command for executing a process within a Linux network namespace.
• Running a law firm on Linux (2021) (HN)
• Holy Build Box - System for building "portable" binaries for Linux: binaries that work on pretty much any Linux distribution. (Web)
• Uroboros - GNU/Linux monitoring and profiling tool focused on single processes.
• Memit - Run binaries straight from memory in Linux.
• Kernel Maintainer Handbook - Manual for kernel maintainers.
• Miscellaneous eBPF Tooling
• scanmem - Memory scanner for Linux.
• Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single register value (2021) (HN)
• My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules (2021)
• Distro Chooser - Test to help you choose a suitable Linux distribution. (Code)
• An intro to finding things in Linux (2021) (HN)
• ipftrace2 - Packet oriented Linux kernel function call tracer.
• Reliably allocating huge pages in Linux (2021) (Lobsters)
• Flatpak Is Not the Future (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• auto-cpufreq - Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux.
• Amazon Linux 2022 (HN)
• systemd by example (2021)
• pier - Linux script management CLI written in Rust.
• Digging into Linux namespaces (2021)
• Autorandr and Keyd (2021) - Automatic monitor handling and key mapping in Linux.
• Distrobox - Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal.
• Unikernel Linux (2021) (Lobsters)
• Exodus - Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers.
• C++ in the Linux kernel (2021)
• Rust support in the Linux kernel (2021) (HN)
• My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers (2013)
• linuxbundles - Standalone, local-runnable binaries of popular linux distributions.
• Drgn: How the Linux kernel team at Facebook debugs the kernel at scale (2021) (HN)
• Getting to know memblock (2021)
• 2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop - Andrew Kelley
• LKRG - Linux Kernel Runtime Guard. (Web)
• crosvm - Virtual machine monitor (VMM) based on Linux’s KVM hypervisor, with a focus on simplicity, security, and speed.
• Linux Integration Services Automation (LISA) - Linux quality validation system. (Docs)
• Amazon Linux 2022 - In Preview
• Notes on BPF and eBPF (HN)
• Musl-LFS - Linux From Scratch using Musl as Libc.
• CMLFS - Clang-Built Musl Linux From Scratch.
• Picosnitch - Protect your privacy, see which processes make remote network connections. (HN)
• My 2022 high-end Linux PC (Lobsters) (HN)
• systemd by example - Playground allows you to learn about systemd interactively, right from your browser. (Article)
• Linux-router - Set Linux as router in one command. Able to provide Internet, or create WiFi hotspot. Support transparent proxy (redsocks). Also useful for routing VM/containers.
• EDB - EBPF program debugger.
• Installing Every Arch Package (2022) (HN)
• WebVM - Server-less virtual Linux environment running fully client-side in HTML5/WebAssembly. (Code) (Article) (HN)
• archupd - Arch Linux updater.
• bpfcov - Source-code based coverage for eBPF programs actually running in the Linux kernel.
• The Beginner's Guide to eBPF
• Missing Manuals - io_uring worker pool (2022)
• On Building 30K Debian Packages (2022) (HN)
• Comprehensive Linux Cheatsheet (Code)
• iotop - top utility for IO.
• vmsh - Shell into a virtualized linux, with your own tools.
• A new wave of Linux applications (2022) (HN)
• PipeWire - Aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. (HN)
• Linux Sysops Handbook (HN)
• A Cursed Bug (2022) (Lobsters)
• Fork() is evil; vfork() is goodness; afork() would be better; clone() is stupid (HN)
• Efficient IO with io_uring (2019)
• Wachy - Dynamic tracing profiler for Linux. UI for eBPF-based performance debugging. (Web) (HN)
• tiptop - Command-line system monitoring.
• Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux Kernel (2022)
• Checking out the Linux kernel in under a second
• Toward a better list iterator for the Linux kernel (2022) (HN)
• lxd-snapper - LXD snapshots, automated.
• Linux Metrics Workshop
• Linux on an M1 Mac (2022) (HN) (Article) (HN)
• Linux Perf Examples (HN)
• Pacoloco - Caching proxy server for Arch Linux pacman.
• TuneD - Tuning Profile Delivery Mechanism for Linux.
• celun - Customizable embedded Linux using Nix.
• Linux needs a explicitly defined userspace API
• liburing - io_uring library.
• Linux Privilege Escalation
• Netconsd - Receive and process logs from the Linux kernel.
• Linux SysOps Handbook - Study notes for the common knowledge and tasks of Linux system admins.
• Buildroot - Simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.
• Buildroot dahliaOS
• Egrets - Proof of concept tool that uses eBPF, raw sockets, and kprobes to monitor egress traffic.
• HiGFXback (History of graphics backends)
• NsJail - Process isolation tool for Linux. Utilizes Linux namespace subsystem, resource limits, and the seccomp-bpf syscall filters of the Linux kernel.
• Linux Security Hardening for Confidential Compute
• embedshim - Provide task runtime implementation with pidfd and eBPF sched_process_exit tracepoint to manage deamonless container with low overhead.
• kconfig-hardened-check - Tool for checking the security hardening options of the Linux kernel.
• eBPF Instruction Sets (2021)
• Fox Ear - Linux process behavior trace tool powered by eBPF.
• MyLFS - Bash script to build my own Linux distro based on LFS + BLFS. (Reddit)
• Automated Linux From Scratch
• Booster - Specially crafted small root filesystem that mounted at the early stages of Linux OS boot process.
• Boopkit - Linux eBPF backdoor (TCP) for spawning reverse shells.
• How to diagnose a mysterious process that’s taking too much CPU, memory, IO, etc?
• kvmtool - Lightweight tool for hosting KVM guests.
• KUtrace - Extremely low-overhead Linux kernel tracing facility for observing all the execution time on all cores of a multi-core processor.
• Ask HN: Why is there no Linux distro that “just works” like macOS? (2022)
• CoreOS Installer - Installer for CoreOS disk images.
• melange - Build APKs from source code.
• bpf - eBPF / libbpf bindings for Node.js.
• bpfcc - BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) frontend for Node.js.
• musl-dynamic - Distroless image for running dynamically-linked musl binaries.
• Linux Hardware Database (HN)
• systeroid - More powerful alternative to sysctl with a terminal user interface.
• Where Linux's load average comes from in the kernel (2022) (HN)
• Flatcar Container Linux - Community Linux distribution designed for container workloads, with high security and low maintenance.
• Nebraska - Update manager for Flatcar Container Linux.
• Limbo - XNU in Linux userspace. Run macOS CLI tools natively on Linux. (Tweet)
• lrun - Run programs on Linux with resources (ex. time, memory, network, device, syscall, etc.) limited.
• Xpid - Linux Process Discovery. C Library, Go bindings, Runtime.
• RAUC - Safe and secure software updates for embedded Linux. (Web)
• Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)
• deai - One-stop automation system for Linux.
• Alpine GNU C library (glibc) Docker image
• LDT - Linux Driver Template.
• Linux Accessibility: an unmaintained Mess (2022) (Lobsters)
• Linux for Networking Professionals Book (2021) (Code)
• Cobbler - Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.
• strace - Diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux.
• eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) Guide
• Bad BPF - Collection of eBPF programs demonstrating bad behavior.
• libkrunfw - Dynamic library bundling a Linux kernel in a convenient storage format.
• mempeek - Command-line tool designed to peek around memory of a running Linux process.
• Async - Modern framework for backend development based on io_uring Linux interface.
• How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) (HN) (Lobsters)
• What’s new with io_uring (2022)
• Kernel Recipes 2022
• bpfd - Prototype networking bpf loader.
• collectd - System statistics collection daemon.
• bpflock - eBPF driven security for locking and auditing Linux machines.
• traffico - Shape your traffic the BPF way.
• CoverBee - Code coverage collection tool for eBPF programs.
• distri - Linux distribution to research fast package management.
• Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them (2022)
• Linux Kernel Development Book (2003)
• Linux Block IO: Introducing Multi-queue SSD Access on Multi-core Systems
• rdb - Linux debugger written in Rust.
• Dismember - Command-line toolkit for Linux that can be used to scan the memory of all processes.
• Live-patching security vulnerabilities inside the Linux kernel with eBPF Linux Security Module (2022)
• atop - System and process monitor for Linux.
• A Journey into the Linux Scheduler (2022) (HN)
• Linux Kernel vs DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown (2022)
• What are your favorite Rust-powered Linux programs? (2022)
• My business card runs Linux (HN)
• tuigreet - Graphical console greeter for greetd.
• perf_to_profile - Tool to convert Linux perf files to the profile.proto format used by pprof.
• Beginner’s Guide to eBPF Programming - Liz Rice (2020)
• Understanding modern Linux routing (and wg-quick) (2021) (HN)
• VerKer - Linux kernel library functions formally verified.
• minibase - Small static userspace tools for Linux.
• Aya: your tRusty eBPF companion (2022)
• knock-out - Crate with an example of a kernel module in Rust.
• stratisd - Easy to use local storage management for Linux.
• Rust linux kernel development | JackOS (Code)
• Learning eBPF Book
• Embedded Linux Using Nix/NixOS on the VisionFive RISC-V SBC (2022)
• CVE-2022-29582: An io_uring vulnerability (2022)
• Fully dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment (HN)
• ply - Dynamic Tracing in Linux.