On the last Sunday of November, Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.18, the kernel that Ari Lemmke named after him in 1991. It's ...

For years now, the most popular end-user operating worldwide has been Linux. Or, to be more precise, it's Android. According to the Irish analysis site Statcounter's most recent numbers, Android had ...

Eric Raymond, self-proclaimed open-source evangelist and Linux advocate, is not depressed by the state of technology stocks. In fact, he believes now is an ideal moment for companies that are looking ...

Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 6.18 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), which will likely become the next LTS kernel: So I'll ...

Rust is becoming equal to assembler and C in programming the Linux kernel – at least officially, as there is still a lot of work to be done in practice.

The execute bit determines whether or not permission is granted to run a file as a program or script. Setting the execute bit on a directory decides access ability, permitting entry and access to ...

NVMe solid state disk drives have become inexpensive unless you want the very largest sizes. But how do you get the most out ...

After years of debate and development, bcachefs—a modern copy-on-write filesystem once merged into the Linux kernel—is being removed from mainline. As of kernel 6.17, the in-kernel implementation has ...

Using the “less” Linux command to view the contents of files downloaded from the Internet is a dangerous operation that can lead to remote code execution, according to a security researcher. At first ...

In order to stop Apex Legends' Linux cheating problem, Respawn is pulling support for the Steam Deck. Obviously a majority of players that play games like Apex Legends will do so on console or PC, ...

German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.