The latest Linux kernel boasts security, speed, and power improvements for Intel, AMD, ARM, and RISC-V architectures.

New Linux kernel "lockdown" module to limit high-privileged users -- even root -- from tampering with some kernel functionality.

In context: Linux offers developers and engineers a means to "tune" its operations, providing thousands of individual parameters that can adjust how the open-source kernel manages resources ...

Similar to the Microsoft kernel in Windows operating systems, the Linux kernel manages the low-level functions of all the programs that run on the system, such as process management, interrupt ...

The Linux kernel is undergoing major changes that will shape its future development and adoption, according to Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and executive editor of Linux Weekly News.

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate Now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches.

A novel Linux Kernel cross-cache attack named SLUBStick has a 99% success in converting a limited heap vulnerability into an arbitrary memory read-and-write capability, letting the researchers ...

In the Linux kernel, even when there are multiple CPUs, they shouldall run the same exception-handling code, so this is unlikely to beused for Linux. 3) Where userprograms are built to run: MIPS Linux ...

Microsoft is bringing the heart of Linux to Windows, the latest sign of the software giant's increasing receptiveness to open source software.

But it can be expected that RTOSes with kernel 2.6 as the basic kernel now can compete with the biggies of the embedded world and offer the embedded developer community a reliable and free embedded ...