In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is ...

While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS ...

With so many configuration options to consider, it can be difficult to even figure out which options are redundant, unused, or otherwise amenable to simplification. For our problem of counting the ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting three Linux kernel ...

We don’t normally cover individual releases of the Linux kernel, partly because most updates are pretty routine. Any given Linux kernel update resolves some bugs, improves support for existing ...

According to Linus’s law, “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” is fundamental to open source. Unfortunately, thanks to AI bug-finding tools, such as Claude Mythos and OpenAI Daybreak, behind ...

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 ...

Microsoft has contributed thousands of lines of code to the Linux kernel, the open source software at the heart of the widely used Linux operating system. And now, the software giant has contributed ...

Thinking about upgrading your Ubuntu machines to Linux kernel 5.8? Jack Wallen explains the pros and cons. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or ...

Linux is back inside Android and Android is back inside Linux. Android has always been Linux, but for years the Android project went its own way and its code wasn’t merged back into the main Linux ...

Een beveiligingslek in een IPv6-subsysteem van de Linux-kernel wordt misbruikt bij aanvallen, zo waarschuwt het Amerikaanse cyberagentschap CISA. Via de kwetsbaarheid (CVE-2026-53362) kan een ...