Linus Torvalds is not known for suffering fools when it comes to Linux kernel development. And he recently proved that again by going on an epic rant about some code he considered useless.

the sources of the kernel called Linux consisted of exactly 39,819,522 lines of – code-comments, blank lines, documentation, build infrastructure and the like included. As an average of roughly ...

This article provides some background to the technique ... only for critical security problems. Linux kernel patches can fix vulnerabilities if the problem can be isolated to small and specific ...

That’s the reason for the creation of io_uring, an improved system call interface in the Linux kernel ... where the code confuses a memory location being used by the kernel with one which ...

Want to learn the internals of the Linux kernel? Version 6.5-rc5 has about 36 million lines of code in it, so good luck! [Seiya] has a different approach. Go back to the beginning and examine the ...

Linus Torvalds announced the final release of Linux kernel 6.15. This latest kernel 6.15 ships with lots of fixes and driver ...

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

It even showed an Android phone running a mainline Linux kernel. But first, some background on Android's ... for even more hardware-specific code that supports every other piece of hardware ...

A security researcher has discovered a security flaw in the Linux kernel using the OpenAI o3 reasoning model. An official ...

In addition, for the first time, the Linux community will be adopting a Code of Conduct ... the potential toxic background radiation of interacting with the kernel community before I send anything ...