Zack Brown is a tech journalist at Linux Journal and Linux Magazine, and is a former author of the "Kernel Traffic" weekly newsletter and the "Learn Plover" stenographic typing tutorials.He first ...

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, ... There was no Linux 2.4 kernel under testers' Christmas trees in 2000.

The report notes that the Linux Foundation kernel team members responded to these suggestions by expressing their inability to switch to Yubikey with touch activation, since it is not open source ...

A new privilege escalation vulnerability impacting Linux was discovered, enabling unprivileged local users to compromise the kernel and elevate their rights to attain root-level access.

The programmer in charge of the current version, 2.4, of the heart of Linux plans to quickly curtail the addition of new features in order to encourage a swift move to the upcoming 2.6 kernel, a ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel has been released, almost a month later than originally planned. Version 2.6.14 of the kernel was initially planned for release on Oct. 7, Andrew Morton, the ...

As such, it is the lowest-level component in the software stack, and the most important. If the kernel has a problem, every piece of software running on the computer shares in that problem.

This new version of the Linux kernel comes less than the months after the release of the previous iteration, 2.6.34. Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news ...

End users shouldn’t go out and download Linux 6.16 when it’s released, instead just wait for your Linux distribution to update to it, as distribution-specific changes get made.