Linux is a great OS for networking ... You can see if your internet connection is up or if a server has gone down. The basic ...

[Andreas] has created this tutorial on real-time (RT) tasks in Linux. At first blush that sounds like a rather dry topic, but [Andreas] makes things interesting by giving us some real-world demos ...

However, if you want to do your own work, you might think about Linux and one of the many scientific computing applications available for it.