Yes, I'm talking about a smartphone—specifically, an Android-powered smartphone. Enter UserLAnd. UserLAnd offers a quick and easy way to run an entire Linux distribution, or even just a Linux ...

On the services I am looking at, the default distributions are 64-bit, and the kernel is not changeable.<BR><BR>So my question is: quantitatively, what is the approximate difference in memory ...

I know that Android is running a (modified) Linux kernel with a custom userland. What I want is a fairly complete set of command line GNU tools, like gcc, sed, awk, etc, as well as python, perl ...

The most Twitter-vocal iPhone Dev Team member, Mr. MuscleNerd himself, has just posted a screenshot from a jailbroken iPhone 4. Before you get too excited, however, you should know that this is ...

UserLand Software has introduced Radio UserLand 8.0, a new version of the desktop Web publishing product for use in personal publishing and corporate knowledge management. Version 8.0 adds Mac OS ...

Putting a leash on the root account The new feature's primary function will be to strengthen the divide between userland processes and kernel code by preventing even the root account from ...

TL;DR: The Nintendo Switch 2 has a newly discovered userland ROP exploit allowing custom graphics display, revealing security vulnerabilities. This early hack signals potential risks for homebrew ...

vDSO Basics The traditional mechanism of communication between userland applications and the kernel is something called a system call. Syscalls are implemented as software interrupts providing the ...

Embedded within the LKM rootkit is Kitsune SO ('lib64/libs.so'), acting as the userland rootkit that injects itself into processes using 'LD_PRELOAD' to intercept system calls at the user level.

GNU and BSD userland are similar, and yet different, with varying levels of POSIX support. This effectively means that FreeBSD is a singular OS with rather nice documentation (the FreeBSD handbook).