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 ...

Thou shalt not change the kernel code Over the weekend, IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds approved a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named ‘lockdown’. The new feature will… Thou shalt not ...

It finally happened. After years of efforts and rewrites, Linus Torvalds has signed offon a new optional feature for Linux that locks down the kernel much earlier in the boot process than was ...

There's an ongoing series of skirmishes between corporations who want to sell products that users don't fully control and the kernel developers who want users to be the highest authority. Sometimes ...

For years, Torvalds has managed kernel versioning with a lighthearted logic: increase the major number only when he can no ...