As Linux Ate My RAM explains, the top command showing that you’re low on memory may not mean what you think it means. By default, Linux sets aside otherwise unused memory for disk caching, which ...

Much like how the Blue Screen of Death originated in Windows, Linux’s version will be used as an emergency tool to log errors. If a Linux system fails to boot, it will generate a full-screen ...

A portable volatile memory acquisition tool for Linux. AVML is an X86_64 userland volatile memory acquisition tool written in Rust, intended to be deployed as a static binary. AVML can be used to ...

Google, the ISRG, and Ojeda. The new contract from the Internet Security Research Group gives Ojeda a full-time paycheck to continue memory safety work he was already doing on a part-time basis.

It’s more of an issue in Windows than Linux, as unsafe third-party installations are rare in Linux. Will a GRUB reinstall fix the MTD device error? The go-to fix for any boot issue is to reinstall ...

In this video from the 2018 OpenFabrics Workshop, Christoph Lameter from Jump Trading LLC presents: New Types of Memory, their support in Linux and how to use them via RDMA. “Recently new types of ...

Linux administrators are being urged to check for security updates after the discovery of a memory corruption vulnerability that has been around for over a decade. According to researchers at ...

Chinese tech giant Huawei has proposed a new “SandBox Mode” for the Linux kernel to improve memory safety. The ultimate goal of SandBox Mode is to execute native kernel code in an environment ...

This week, ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asked Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about the possibility of new Linux kernel code being written in Rust—a high performance but memory-safe ...