A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds, as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture in a Linux kernel mailing list post. That an old ...

The latest release, Debian 13, codenamed Trixie, released on Aug. 9. This latest version features numerous updates and introduces some notable changes. Perhaps the one alteration that will hit ...

Linux kernel version 5.8 is about the same size as Linux 4.9 from 2016, which Torvalds at the time crowned the "the biggest we've ever had" and spanned over 22 million lines of code.

Is the Linux kernel a security problem? Security is an ongoing issue for all operating systems, including Linux. While Linux has generally had a good reputation compared to Windows when it comes ...

How Linux gets to a phone: the mainline Linux LTS kernel (blue) gets forked by Google for the Android Common Kernel, then that gets forked by an SoC vendor for each chip, then that gets forked ...

Linux 6.0 kernel looks to improve the open-source OS with support for new hardware and a verification model to boost reliability.

The result is a plethora of Linux distributions catering to various needs, such as the user-friendly Ubuntu, the stability-focused CentOS, and the community-driven Debian. Kernel and System ...

NVIDIA has published the source code of its kernel modules for the R515 driver, using a dual licensing model that combines the GPL and MIT licenses, making the modules legally re-distributable.