On a well-maintained Linux system, months can go by without needing to reboot. Sooner or later, however, a security patch to the Linux kernel will require you to reboot your machine. That's not a real ...

Live patching is a way of updating a running system without stopping it. It is best known as a technique for keeping Linux servers updated to the latest security levels without affecting downtime.

Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.1, the first point release since RHEL 8 launched back in May. While point releases in the Linux world don’t tend to bring ...

Enterprise Linux users face growing risks from software vulnerabilities, especially given their widespread reliance on open-source code in Linux applications and commercial software. Live kernel ...

This is actually a feature that was available in Linux in 2009 thanks to a program called Ksplice. This program compares the original and patched kernels and then uses a customized kernel module to ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. If there’s one thing that Linux needs to aid its march onwards it is (arguably) more enterprise robustness.

Detecting vulnerabilities and managing the associated patching is challenging even in a small-scale Linux environment. Scale things up and the challenge becomes almost unsurmountable. There are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about security, hacking and malware. Sep 25, 2014, 07:05am EDT Oct 02, 2014, 11:57am EDT This article is more than 10 ...

Nobody loves a reboot, especially not if it involves a late-breaking patch for a kernel-level issue that has to be applied stat. To that end, three projects are in the works to provide a mechanism for ...

When a microprocessor vulnerability rocked the tech industry last year, companies scrambled to patch nearly every server they had. In Oracle’s case, that meant patching the operating system on about 1 ...