Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Unlike Windows or macOS, Linux isn’t a single operating system. It’s a family of distributions, or distros, each designed for ...

The 6.16 version of the kernel has Rust for Linux improvements to fix race conditions. Kernel updates tend to release every two months, so ongoing Rust work is current, and the project is still very ...

Linux kernel developers, particularly Peter Zijlstra, have worked in this area for several years. The idea behind lazy preemption is to simplify kernel scheduling and provide faster overall ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That ...

Linux kernel 5.9 sees Btrfs enjoying numerous performance enhancements. And with the addition of more support of NVMe 2.0 for SSD devices, file system performance on servers should be much improved.

The Linux kernel has so much hardware support and so many companies funding development that it is unlikely other kernels (regardless of their cool design choices) will catch up.

Sameer Samat, the president of the Android ecosystem, divulged the plan in an interview with TechRadar. He stated that “we’re ...

Even Google's latest and, uh, greatest device, the Pixel 4, shipped in October 2019 with Linux kernel 4.14, an LTS release from November 2017. It will be stuck on kernel 4.14 forever, too.

Linux kernel 5.15 is no exception. The list of added or improved hardware support includes: Improvements for AMD CPUs and GPUs (temperature monitoring support added for AMD Zen 3 APU ...