The Linux kernel is the beating heart of any Linux Operating System (OS), a formidable software layer that sits at the core of the computing experience, facilitating communication between hardware and ...

The latest kernel also brings filesystem and I/O improvements and substantial new support across AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, ...

Many issues involved with Linux kernel development are different from traditional software development processes. When working on a portion of the kernel (or a specific driver), you need to 1) stay ...

Find out what’s coming to (and what’s leaving) the Linux 5.14 kernel and what Linus Torvalds said about the release. On the heels of the 5.13 kernel debut, Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) ...

Standards drive the market. That’s a truism if ever there was one. But that doesn’t make it a simple truth. There are de facto standards, closed standards, open standards and lots of gray areas in ...

If you’re looking to get your Linux kernels up to the latest releases, here’s how to use a GUI tool available that makes this process very easy. There are certain Linux distributions that always seem ...

Spend enough time around Android, or even PCs, and eventually you will come across the term, “the Linux kernel,” since Android uses the Linux kernel. The “Linux” part is easy enough to understand, it ...

Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...

This time a bit earlier than usual, the new kernel Linux 7.1 appeared in our regions on Sunday around 5:00 PM, not in the early morning hours of Monday. What might suggest an extremely “smooth” ...