Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring or ...

The Linux kernel community’s adoption of new fuzzing tools marks another important step toward a more secure and resilient ...

For radical, picture me skateboarding ungainly while installing Linux - or, to be more precise CachyOS - on my PC. Windows 11 ...

Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, ...

One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from ’90s-era PC hardware to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to ...

Canonical has just released the beta of the next Ubuntu LTS – but what's grabbed the attention of many is that it features ...

This article is based on findings from a kernel-level GPU trace investigation performed on a real PyTorch issue (#154318) using eBPF uprobes. Trace databases are published in the Ingero open-source ...

A growing body of academic research suggests that large language model agents can now produce bug reports and even patch ...

Kroah-Hartman credited longtime kernel developer Chris Mason, now at Meta, with pioneering AI-based review workflows. Mason has been running AI review for eBPF and networking for some time. The ...

The controversial d_genocide() function has been stripped from the Linux kernel's upcoming update. Introduced two years ago, the code's name likely violated inclusive language rules. A recent update ...

The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions ...

On the client the kernel module does some caching of names and attributes but is mostly there to re-direct system calls to Venus. The kernel module is called the Minicache. The user level programs ...