The Linux kernel development community is emphasizing the need for open source device drivers, in a statement released Monday. While the vast majority of device drivers have open source, there are a ...

The open-source community is celebrating a well-deserved recognition. Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the most influential figures in the Linux ecosystem, has been awarded the European Open Source Award, ...

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...

2024 is off to a roaring start in the open-source world with the release of the Linux 6.7 kernel. It took just a bit longer than usual for Linux 6.7 to be released, thanks in part to the fact that ...

Mobile and embedded systems are the hidden workhorses of modern technology—from the smartphones in our pockets to IoT devices in our homes and industries. At the heart of these systems lies the ...

Nvidia is ready to fully transition to an open-source GPU kernel with the upcoming R560 drivers. For those who came in late, in 2022 Nvidia started to support an open-sauce Linux GPU kernel driver ...

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 ...

Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new issues however, and as greybeards are wont to point ...

In a nutshell: Android's kernel is based on the long-term support branches of the Linux kernel. LTS releases are essential for the well-being of Google's mobile OS, so much so that the company decided ...