The most striking feature of Linux is that it is open-source software. This means that its source code is freely available for anyone to inspect, modify, and distribute. This collaborative nature has ...

An operating system's kernel manages resources, handles system calls, governs hardware access, and controls processes. The Linux kernel was started as a way to overcome the licensing limitations of ...

The Linux 6.17 kernel has been released, bringing a swathe of improvements to desktop distro users and beyond. There's also ...

Look inside your /System/Library/Extensions folder. Every file in this location is a kernel extension; a piece of software that adds on to the functionality of the ...

The proposed change is that with the removal of bcachefs, nothing uses it any more. NTFS3 is now built in and OpenZFS can't be included and never will, unless Oracle decides to re-license it – which ...

Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them before ...

Want to know what's happening with Linux kernel development? Subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Want to know what's what with the Linux kernel at a deep level, but without tracking every last ...

Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel was infected for two years, starting in 2009, by sophisticated malware that managed to get a hold of one of the ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel, Linux 5.13, introduces support for Apple's M1 system-on-chip and is now available as a release candidate. Apple M1 support was previously reported for Linux ...

Google’s Android November 2021 security updates plug 18 flaws in the framework and system components and 18 more in the kernel and vendor components. Among Google’s November Android security updates ...