How Linux gets to a phone: the Linux LTS kernel gets forked by Google for the Android Common Kernel, then that gets forked by an SoC vendor for each chip, then that gets forked again by a device ...

Linux kernel 6.15: A closer look at new features Linux 6.15 once again improves performance, offers standardized firmware management and clears the way for x86.

After two decades of dedicated development, the "PREEMPT_RT" patch set for real-time Linux has finally been integrated into the main kernel code, receiving approval from Linus Torvalds ...

With this week marking the 25th anniversary of the open source Linux OS, The Linux Foundation has issued a new report on the massive development effort that shapes the Linux kernel.

The Linux development kernel now supports wireless personal area networks, but ordinary users won't see the software for a while yet.

At CoreOS Fest, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel, declares that almost all bugs can be security issues.

Torvalds himself oversees development of the kernel as an employee of the nonprofit Linux Foundation, which is funded by contributions from corporations and individuals. Linux is important enough ...

New Linux kernel "lockdown" module to limit high-privileged users -- even root -- from tampering with some kernel functionality.

The Linux kernel tarball in bzip2 format is named linux- x. y. z.tar.bz2, where x.y.z is the version of that particular release of the kernel source. After downloading the source, uncompressing and ...

Open source has moved way beyond the unwashed masses as big companies dominate the development of the Linux kernel.