This repository contains a Nix shell that makes it easy to build a Linux kernel from source and test it in a virtual machine. Any host Linux platform with Nix is supported. After some time, the guest ...

Welcome to a streamlined Linux kernel development setup using Nix flakes. This project simplifies the process of setting up a development environment for the Linux kernel, ensuring that you have all ...

Monterrey, California: At the Linux Foundation Members Summit, Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and executive editor of Linux Weekly News, explained where the pain points are for Linux kernel ...

Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...

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, ...

This week, ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asked Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about the possibility of new Linux kernel code being written in Rust—a high performance but memory-safe ...

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects. The foundation created the ...

Topic ===== local root exploit in Linux kernel. Problem Description ===== There is a race condition involving ptrace/execve in Linux 2.2.x kernels that can be exploited to gain root. This is a local ...