Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus ...

Linux Kernel 6.16 RC5 is out with driver updates, and filesystem fixes. Learn what’s changed and why this release is right on ...

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.

Want to learn the internals of the Linux kernel? Version 6.5-rc5 has about 36 million lines of code in it, so good luck! [Seiya] has a different approach. Go back to the beginning and examine the 0… ...

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 ...

It even showed an Android phone running a mainline Linux kernel. But first, some background on Android's current kernel ... in every device shipping millions of lines of out-of-tree kernel code.

Longtime Linux kernel developer Sarah Sharp last week published a blog post detailing her reasons for quitting the Linux kernel community. Sharp maintained the USB 3.0 host controller driver until ...

Last week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current maintainer of the stable branch of the open source Linux kernel, issued a message on the Linux code maintainers mail list announcing that it was removing ...

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.