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 ...

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

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 ...

Large language models (LLMs) by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get ...

Attackers can downgrade Windows kernel components to bypass security features such as Driver Signature Enforcement and deploy rootkits on fully patched systems. This is possible by taking control of ...