Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ...

Members of the open source community are working on a new security-focused project for the Linux kernel. Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform ...

The Linux Weather Forecast Web site is a central repository of information regarding Linux kernel projects, allowing users to track development progress The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the ...

Linux and open source are also on track to become more secure in 2026, as the ecosystem simultaneously hardens the kernel, professionalizes supply-chain defenses, and scales coordinated security ...

Earlier today, we wrote that Microsoft was going to add some big new features to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including native support for Docker containers. It turns out that that ain’t the half ...

Jann Horn, the Google Project Zero researcher who discovered the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws, has a few words for maintainers of Ubuntu and Debian: raise your game on merging kernel security fixes, ...

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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 ...

Insisting that they have "repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem," today the Linux kernel community has started petitioning for open-source ...

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Linus Torvalds, best known globally as the creator of the Linux kernel and Git, has acknowledged using Google Antigravity, in ...