Linux stands at the heart of countless operating systems, driving everything from personal computers to servers and embedded systems across the globe. Its flexibility and open-source nature allow for ...

The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan ...

Linus Torvalds wants to tighten up the process for how open source code gets into product-versions of the Linux kernel. Torvalds recently proposed a change in the development process whereby ...

Performance of new version mostly good, but future uncertain The bcachefs file system, now "externally maintained" outside ...

Just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU...' Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has ...

If you installed the RPM containing the source code, you will find it in /usr/src/linux (actually, /usr/src/linux-2.6.xxxx with a symlink from /usr/src/linux) ...

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux ...

There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) ...

Linus Torvalds announced the release of stable Linux Kernel 6.17. Linux 6.17 introduces many exciting features and improvements.

Open-source code runs on every computer on the planet—and keeps America’s critical infrastructure going. DARPA is worried about how well it can be trusted It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that ...