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 ...

In today's open source roundup: Torvalds loses it in an epic rant about kernel code. Plus: Lenovo 100S Chromebook review. And Google says Chrome OS is here to stay.

It even showed an Android phone running a mainline Linux kernel. But first, some background on Android's current kernel mess.Currently, three major forks happen in between the "mainline" Linux ...

The Linux kernel is thought to be over 15 million lines of source code. That includes all the drivers (over 70% of the code) plus the support for the different system architectures (ARM, x86, MIPS ...

Spend enough time around Android, or even PCs, and eventually, you will come across the term, “the Linux kernel.” Android uses the Linux kernel too. In fact, it’s an integral part of the way ...

Live patching is only for critical security problems. Linux kernel patches can fix vulnerabilities if the problem can be isolated to small and specific portions of kernel code. However, if the problem ...

Test-coverage visualization tools let you see how much of a test's source code is executed by the kernel. The IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) has played a key role in using the LTP to uncover ...

Kernel Mode Linux (KML) is a technology that enables the execution of ordinary user-space programs inside kernel space. This article presents the background, an approach and an implementation of KML.

There have been ongoing arguments about Linux kernel code using the Rust programming language, instead of the C language used in most existing code, and much of Asahi’s drivers were written in ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) enables the start of a Linux system and the use of Linux applications under Windows. Performance can also be improved with a new kernel.

Image: Nvidia. It would be useful for someone to do a temperature check of Hell because after years of queries and requests, Nvidia has released on GitHub the source code for its GPU kernel ...