When Linux 6.13 was released at the beginning of the week on January 20, the sources of the kernel called Linux consisted of exactly 39,819,522 lines of – code-comments, blank lines, documentation, ...

The decisive breakdown came during the 6.16 / 6.17 development cycle. The bcachefs lead submitted a major patch (called ...

Immediately after the 2011 break-in, the Linux Foundation began "mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux ...

A local, race condition vulnerability in the af_packet implementation in Linux was patched this week. The bug allows a local attacker to execute code or crash a server. A critical, local ...

In an ongoing thread on the Linux kernel mailing list, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a senior project developer, for one urged fellow ...

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 ...

After years of countless reviews, discussions, and code rewrites, Linus Torvalds approved on Saturday a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named "lockdown." The new feature will ship as a LSM ...

The Linux operating system recently learned to output information via QR codes in case of a hopeless error. The Linux kernel will have a similar function. According ...

In an historic move, Microsoft on Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called ...

The Linux Foundation has released the 2011 edition of its kernel development study. The report provides insight into the status of Linux kernel programming and the level of developer participation. It ...