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 ...

The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...

Microsoft is contributing approximately 20,000 lines of source code to the Linux kernel with the aim of improving support for running the Linux operating system in virtualized environments on Windows ...

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 ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel cleans out nearly 100K lines of code, adds file encryption and the Berkeley Packet Filter, plus makes a nod to gamers and mobile devices. The recent release of ...

Linux kernel strncpy removed in Linux 7.2 after 362 patches and six years of coordinated work. The dangerous C string ...

Over the 25 years of its existence, the Linux kernel has grown from 10,000 lines of code to more than 21 million, according to a report released by the Linux Foundation. The report, authored by Linux ...

As Linux fans know, there are two kinds of hackers: the good guys who develop free software, such as the Linux kernel, and the bad guys who break into computers. The bad guys paid the good guys an ...

The code in the news is called 'Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) ', which was added to the Linux kernel in September 2021 by Intel programmer David E. Box. Box says about SDSi in the Linux kernel ...