The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan ...

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 But now it's been replaced by a Code of Conduct that is derived from the Contributor Covenant that has been ...

After watching Oracle eat away at Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) business with Oracle Enterprise Linux (OUL), Red Hat has decided to launch a competitive strategy with its RHEL source code that will ...

Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate (RC3) for Linux Kernel 7.0 on March 8, 2026. While early versions of a ...

The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...

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 ...

In Linux you can just call schedule () to have the scheduler look for a new process to run. Depending on what you're waiting on, that may or may not be the right idea. I tried looking in the FreeBSD ...