Immediately after the 2011 break-in, the Linux Foundation began "mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux ...

After years of countless reviews, discussions, and code rewrites, Linus Torvalds approved on Saturday a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named "lockdown." The new feature will ship as a LSM ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel cleans out nearly 100K lines of code, adds file encryption and the Berkeley Packet Filter, plus makes a nod to gamers and mobile devices. The recent release of ...

the Linux kernel is unavoidable. The Linux kernel is a 'behind the scenes' that you won't see if you just come into contact with Linux normally, but since it's a program, it naturally has source code.

Over the weekend, the world's most famous Finn pushed out the latest version of the Linux kernel – and warned of upcoming disruption.… Linux kernel 6.16 was released after what was apparently a ...

When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ...

reviously the Linux kernel had a "Code of Conflict" that some might feel is rather harsh. But now it's been replaced by a Code of Conduct that is derived from the Contributor Covenant that has been ...

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...