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 ...

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.

The Linux kernel, which is currently 20.3 million lines of code long, looks set to go on a bit of a diet by version 4.17. 500,000 lines of code will be shed thanks to architecture deprecation.

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% ...