LKRG (short for Linux Kernel Runtime Guard) is a loadable kernel module that continuously monitors the health and integrity ...

The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan ...

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 ...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Among countless other things, I’m thankful to have a weekday during which I can leave my BlackBerry powered down. I have also chosen today to give overdue thanks to the ...

After watching Oracle eat away at Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) business with Oracle Enterprise Linux (OUL), Red Hat has decided to launch a competitive strategy with its RHEL source code that will ...

In Linux you can just call schedule () to have the scheduler look for a new process to run. Depending on what you're waiting on, that may or may not be the right idea. I tried looking in the FreeBSD ...

For desktop Linux users, updating to a new Linux kernel typically carries relatively small, contained risks: wonky drivers, GRUB pain, maybe a full wipe and reinstall. For one subset of laptop owners ...

After years of debate and development, bcachefs—a modern copy-on-write filesystem once merged into the Linux kernel—is being removed from mainline. As of kernel 6.17, the in-kernel implementation has ...