The latest update of The Linux Foundation’s report on Linux kernel development has been published. Since 2005, almost 10,000 individual developers representing 1,000 different companies have ...

Rust is becoming equal to assembler and C in programming the Linux kernel – at least officially, as there is still a lot of work to be done in practice.

Canonical confirms Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will ship with Linux kernel 6.20 (7.0) in April, bringing latest hardware support and performance improvements to users.

The Linux kernel development process is akin to a game of leapfrog. Even-numbered kernels (v2.0, v2.2, v2.4) are stable kernels, and odd-numbered kernels are unstable, or development, kernels. As soon ...

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The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, released its latest report on kernel development. The report covers work completed through the Linux ...

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The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report ...

The Linux 2.6 kernel last week took a step closer to production, as Linux creator Linus Torvalds released a beta version of the code for the open source community to test. The release of the 2.6 code ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google's Android code from the kernel. Kroah-Hartman removed the code in December, noting that Android ...

It seems as though the next stable release of the Linux kernel will reportedly have a new virtualization feature developed by VMware called VMI or "virtual machine interface". The 2.6.21 kernel update ...