Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linux camp When one considers open source, it's fairly easy to imagine a world of designers, developers, and distributors getting ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel cleans out nearly 100K lines of code, adds file encryption and the Berkeley Packet Filter, plus makes a nod to gamers and mobile devices. The recent release of ...

In an ongoing thread on the Linux kernel mailing list, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a senior project developer, for one urged fellow ...

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In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux ...

The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...

A new coding effort recently folded into the next version of the Linux kernel may finally resolve the long-running problems associated with Linux on ARM processors. While devices like the Raspberry Pi ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

A local, race condition vulnerability in the af_packet implementation in Linux was patched this week. The bug allows a local attacker to execute code or crash a server. A critical, local ...

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...