Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological ...

Linux continues to grow bigger and better. Here's what's new and notable in the 6.16 release, plus what you need to know about 6.17.

The Linux kernel has turned 34 years old today. On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds posted to a newsgroup on Usenet that he ...

Kernel drivers link to the heart of the operating system (OS) and provide entry points to functions such as open, read, write, and close. Depending on your version of Linux, the OS offers several ...

The Linux kernel recently added support for loading firmware into an FPGA via the FPGA Manager Framework. [OpenTechLab] has built a driver for the Lattice iCE40 FPGA (same chip used on the ...

In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...

NVIDIA has published the source code of its kernel modules for the R515 driver, using a dual licensing model that combines the GPL and MIT licenses, making the modules legally re-distributable.

Linux kernel developers are banding together to insist open open modules and open drivers for the Linux kernel.

In an unprecedented move, Silicon Titan Nvidia has made the GPU kernel drivers for Linux open-source, paving the way for wider adoption of team green’s hardware beyond Windows.

USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers.