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

Modern Linux distributions are designed to be user-friendly, and that includes how they handle core updates. In many cases, ...

Linus Torvalds has given developers a heads-up that the merge window for Linux kernel 6.17 could be "slightly chaotic".

Not just a few, but tens of thousands, which add up to around 25 million lines. When building a kernel for your own systems, however, much of this driver code is irrelevant.

Code Cleanup For one thing, the 4.18 kernel has brought about the surprising removal of nearly 100,000 lines of outdated code. That’s a lot of code!

Live patching is only for critical security problems. Linux kernel patches can fix vulnerabilities if the problem can be isolated to small and specific portions of kernel code. However, if the problem ...

The code for displaying QR codes in kernel panics is based on the "drm_panic " feature, which Linux has offered since version 6.10 and also comes from Jocelyn Falempe.

The Linux Foundation is strengthening the walls around the Linux kernel's source code Git repositories. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Aug. 19, 2014, 5:51 a.m. PT ...

In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called ...