linux kernel 8 Articles . Under The (Linux) Hood. November 19, 2016 by Al Williams 53 Comments . We’ve often heard that you don’t need to know how an engine works to drive a car, but you can ...

The LTS (long-term support) period for the Linux kernel is being cut down. In 2017, the kernel jumped from two years of support to six. Now, six years later, it turns out that's a lot of work.

The design of the Linux kernel is well-informed regarding modern kernel design. It’s just that there are choices to be made, and Linux went with the traditional one.

It's baked inside Linux kernel version 6.12. This is a major new release. Linux 6.12's standout feature is the long-awaited inclusion of real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support in the mainline kernel.

The latest news about Linux Kernel. Windows 11 24H2 blocked on PCs with code-obfuscation driver BSODs. Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers ...

How Page Tables Work. A page table is a data structure used by the Linux kernel to translate virtual addresses into physical addresses. Since memory is managed in fixed-size blocks called pages ...

A security flaw in Intel processors has led to a redesign of Linux and Windows kernels. Programmers have been busy for the past two months patching the Linux kernel’s virtual memory system to ...

Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel was infected for two years, starting in 2009, by sophisticated malware that managed to get a hold of one of the ...

Intel has not officially disclosed details on the flaw yet, though a patch already exists in the Linux kernel, with patches for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS expected by Jan. 9.