The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. That's according to a new report published Monday by the Linux Foundation and ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science in Canada found that modifying just 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel could cut data center energy consumption by 30% ...

simply by changing a few lines of Linux code. Working with Joe Damato at Fastly, Professor Karsten has developed a small, non-intrusive kernel change of just 30 lines of code that uses IRQ ...

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 ...

Half a million lines of code changed is not insignificant. Although it might be small in new features, Linux kernel 6.14 does deliver some significant changes. For instance, the new kernel ...

a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel alone holds around 30 million lines, with systemd containing over one million ...

It seemed inevitable that the Linux kernel sources would expand beyond 40 million lines early this year. Linux 6.13 was ...

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