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 ...

Kernel drivers are the bridge between the Linux operating system and the hardware components of a computer. They play a crucial role in managing and facilitating communication between the OS and ...

The latest Linux kernel release closes out the 6.x era - and it's a gift to cloud admins ...

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

LONDON -- When I met up with my open-source buddy Dustin Kirkland, VP of engineering at Chainguard, at KubeCon Europe, he said he had me to thank for his company's new Linux distribution, Chainguard ...

The Linux kernel development community is emphasizing the need for open source device drivers, in a statement released Monday. While the vast majority of device drivers have open source, there are a ...

Debian is one of the oldest GNU/Linux distributions, and it continues to serve as the foundation for many other Linux-based operating systems including Ubuntu, Kali, MX, and the Raspberry Pi OS, among ...

Last week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current maintainer of the stable branch of the open source Linux kernel, issued a message on the Linux code maintainers mail list announcing that it was removing ...

Why it matters: Linux is the open-source kernel you can literally find everywhere these days, the heart of both popular consumer operating systems and the most complex hyperscale or cloud setups.