Mostly minor changes under the hood – a lot of them Over the weekend, the world's most famous Finn pushed out the latest ...

The Linux kernel sources grow pretty fast, at around four hundred thousand lines of code every two months, and consist of not just code but comments, documentation, and even blank lines for ...

The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. That’s according to a new report published Monday by the Linux Foundation and ...

Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Half a million lines of code changed is not insignificant. Although it might be small in new features, Linux kernel 6.14 does deliver some significant changes.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science in Canada found that modifying just 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel could cut data center energy consumption by 30% ...