The Linux kernel, foundational for servers, desktops, embedded systems, and cloud infrastructure, has been under heightened scrutiny. Several vulnerabilities have been exploited in real-world attacks, ...

It’s been a tense few months for users of the BCacheFS filesystem, as amidst the occasional terse arguments and flowery self-praise on the Linux Kernel mailing list the future of this filesystem ...

In this article we’ll dive into the technical details of a real world rootkit, explore how that rootkit compromises an operating system, and then learn how Kernel Integrity Measurement technology ...

This is a huge problem for graphics drivers, zfs filesystem, and a gazillion other kernel development workloads. checking kernel source and build directories... done ...

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who can blow a deadline. Linux Torvalds confessed that he'd love to have had "some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular ...

Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...

So I thought that ring0 linux kernel modules are as optimized as it gets, so if this game could be remade to be compiled into a linux kernel module it would be the absolute best for performance. I ...

kernel extensions (code integrated into the mainline kernel) implementing networking support for processes with per-user privileges and providing the new system calls pre_accept, set_net_user and ...

Google has upgraded the kernel version of all Tensor-powered Pixels in the Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 release. The Google Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, Pixel 8 series, Pixel Tablet, and Pixel Fold all ...

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) ...

As is so often the case, a notable change in an upcoming Linux kernel is both historic and no big deal. What does this mean for desktop Linux? Not much. Beyond high-end audio production or replication ...