What just happened? Linux has long been the versatile open-source workhorse behind everything from web servers to Android phones. A significant milestone now enables the penguin mascot to showcase its ...

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abandoned ...

The Linux kernel development cycle continues with the release of Linux 6.19-rc4, the fourth release candidate in the lead-up to the final 6.19 stable kernel. As with previous RC builds, this release ...

Find out what’s coming to (and what’s leaving) the Linux 5.14 kernel and what Linus Torvalds said about the release. On the heels of the 5.13 kernel debut, Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) ...

The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found - thanks to AI ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are ...

Technical information has emerged for a serious vulnerability affecting multiple Linux kernel versions that could be triggered with "minimal capabilities." The security issue is being referred to as ...

The latest Linux kernel released includes changes to networking, CPU architecture, Arm support, graphics and storage. Linus Torvalds is a busy man who continues to toil away at the Linux kernel to ...

All Linux distributions provide a wide range of network applications—from dæmons that provide a variety of services such as WWW, mail and SSH to client programs that access one or more of these ...