Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, finally met in person at a friendly dinner.

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

29-years in the making, the Linux kernel just accepted its millionth commit. The greatest open-source project of all time has come a long way from its "hobby" beginnings.

Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

The latest Linux kernel released includes changes to networking, CPU architecture, Arm support, graphics and storage.

The Linux kernel has a monolithic architecture, which means that the whole kernel code runs in kernel space and shares the same address space. Because of this architecture, you have to choose the ...

XIP Linux Kernel Architecture Typical Linux systems, such as PCs and high-end MPUs, aren’t memory-constrained, so they can incorporate large, high-speed RAM without penalty.

Each rev of the kernel, offered under the GPLv2 license, flows to the multitude of Linux distributions, the providers of which are responsible for the customer experience.

Google's Android OS is based on the Linux operating system and the underlying kernel. But what is a kernel exactly and why does it matter?

To be fair, they aren’t wrong. Linux is a kernel. Much of what we think of as a Linux desktop OS is really from other sources, including, but not limited to, GNU.