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The lean-coded, fast, modern, and secure WireGuard VPN protocol has made it into the Linux kernel as Linus Torvalds merged it into the git repository for version 5.6.
The idea of updating your Linux kernel can sound intimidating, especially if you're new to the ecosystem or if your ...
Linus Torvalds has given developers a heads-up that the merge window for Linux kernel 6.17 could be "slightly chaotic".
The Rust session was proposed by Google engineer Nick Desaulniers, who works on compiling the Linux kernel with Clang and LLVM. Triplett is an advocate of using Rust for systems-level programming ...
Android's kernel fragmentation is a huge mess, and you can imagine how long and difficult the road is for a bugfix at the top of the fork tree to reach to the bottom, where end-users live.
At the Linux Kernel Summit last year, the drivers/staging/ tree was created, allowing us a place within the main Linux kernel tree for drivers to be merged that were not yet of the high kernel ...
$ cd linux-2.4.19-greg $ patch -p1 < ../my_patch If your patch does not apply cleanly, resolve all of the conflicts that are created (patch will tell you about these, leaving behind .rej and .orig ...