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 ...

The popular router firmware now uses Alpine Linux's apk package manager, among many other changes.

Linus Torvalds, the creator and lead maintainer of the Linux kernel, officially confirmed that the next version after Linux 6.19 will be dubbed Linux 7.0. In the announcement, he made clear that the ...

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NVIDIA has published the source code of its Linux kernel modules for the R515 driver, allowing developers to provide greater integration, stability, and security for Linux distributions. The source ...

If something happens to Linus Torvalds, there's now a succession plan. Rather than naming a successor, the plan describes a process for selecting successors. However, Torvalds has no plans to retire.

Recent developments — including hardened Linux distributions, live patching for government-grade systems, container image hardening, and hypervisor-level isolation — reflect a broader industry push to ...

Microsoft continues to supplement its Windows and cloud platforms with more of its own “borrowed” Linux roots. The developing symbiotic “WindLux” integration could spawn an open-source hybrid of ...

When Sarah Sharp was a 20-year-old university student in Portland, she took on an extra-credit project writing USB driver code for the Linux kernel. She was too young to stay past 10pm in some of the ...