Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Sunday unveiled the first release candidate (RC) for the Linux kernel version 5.14. This release of kernel has contributions from about 1,650 developers. There were ...

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of version 3.0 of the Linux kernel. Although the version bump, which takes the kernel straight from 2.6.39 to 3.0, suggests a release of some significance, ...

Android runs on top of the Linux kernel. All of Android’s memory management, input/output, processes, locks, networking, etc happens through and via the Linux kernel. Each new release of Android uses ...

Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds seems delighted with the first release candidate (rc1) of the Linux kernel version 5.8, which contains 800,000 new lines of code and over 14,000 changed files, ...

One of the biggest selling points of a Pixel device is the (usual) cadence at which Google releases new software updates and, apparently, Tensor-powered Pixels are about to get a rare software update ...

A Kernel Potato: Ubuntu is one of most popular Linux distributions available, it is a free and open source operating system based on Debian, and is used by both end users and enterprise ventures. It's ...

The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems. Among the improvements are an ...

I'm running Centos 6.9 on a VPS and did a yum update the other day. I noticed that it removed the 2.6 kernel and installed version 4.9 from the "centos-virt-xen" repo. I'm do not recall adding this ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. May 07, 2019, 03:46am EDT May 07, 2019, 03:50am EDT This article ...