Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...

Linus Torvalds releases Linux Kernel 6.19. Discover the 300% TCP boost, PCIe Link Encryption, Live Update Orchestrator for VMs, and more.

What just happened? Linux has long been the versatile open-source workhorse behind everything from web servers to Android phones. A significant milestone now enables the penguin mascot to showcase its ...

Red Hat, IBM, and Novell remain the top contributors to the Linux kernel, an open source project that has grown by 2.7 million lines of code over the past 16 months, according to a report put out by ...

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Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abandoned ...

VIENNA - In a candid keynote chat at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on kernel development, the integration of Rust, and the future ...

On Monday this week, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman removed the drivers for Android from the Linux kernel’s staging tree, thus insuring that–for now–Android is not headed for the mainstream Linux ...

To paraphrase an old joke: How do you know if someone is a Rust developer? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. There is a move to put Rust everywhere, even in the Linux kernel. Not going fast enough for ...

Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything ...

Big quote: Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux kernel, firmly rejected a code contribution intended to enhance RISC-V architecture support in the upcoming Linux 6.17 release.