An operating system's kernel manages resources, handles system calls, governs hardware access, and controls processes. The ...

The new Linux 6.6 kernel is now available, integrating an array of updated capabilities that will impact workstation, server and cloud deployments. Among the improvements that are part of Linux 6.6 ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

allow the programmer to control the system's input/output devices. Entire books have been written specifically on Linux device drivers. In this chapter we attempt to distill this topic down to its ...

Microsoft announced today that it supports the inclusion of its exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) file system for USB flash drives and SD cards in the Linux kernel through the Open Invention ...

When you write programs in user space, the worst thing that can happen to your program is a core dump. Your program did something very wrong, so the operating system decided to give you all of its ...

The secure shell (SSH) servers of the Linux kernel repository have been compromised and a trojan injected into the rc3.d startup file following a hack earlier this month. The attack was undetected for ...

An attempt by an unknown attacker to plant a Trojan virus in the Linux kernel has been blocked. On Wednesday, kernel developers discovered that a server hosting a copy of the Linux source code had ...