Linus Torvalds has announced the sixth Release Candidate (RC6) for Linux Kernel 6.16 on July 13, 2025. This new version marks another step closer to a full, stable release. This past week, there was a ...

The 6.16 version of the kernel has Rust for Linux improvements to fix race conditions. Kernel updates tend to release every two months, so ongoing Rust work is current, and the project is still very ...

Another method is to use the lscpu command to get the model name and other info about the installed CPU. The top entry for your processor info will show the architecture, which would be i486 or i586 ...

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

A web application called ' Linux kernel word count ' that can visualize how much abusive language is contained in the Linux kernel source code has been a hot topic, so I tried using it.

The founder of the Linux kernel wants to bypass maintainers of the Linux kernel code who are reluctant to support Rust in their subsystem.

This code change, which reportedly improves Linux networking efficiency and boosts throughput by up to 45% without increasing latency, is based on a research paper called “Kernel vs. User-Level ...

When Linux 6.13 was released at the beginning of the week on January 20, the sources of the kernel called Linux consisted of exactly 39,819,522 lines of – code-comments, blank lines ...

A novel Linux Kernel cross-cache attack named SLUBStick has a 99% success in converting a limited heap vulnerability into an arbitrary memory read-and-write capability, letting the researchers ...

In the future, Google says that ChromeOS will use “portions of the Android stack, like the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks, as part of the foundation of ChromeOS.” Why?

AMD's RDNA 4 is expected later this year, but with a recent massive update to Linux drivers that added over 20,000 lines of code - it could be sooner.

In context: Linux offers developers and engineers a means to "tune" its operations, providing thousands of individual parameters that can adjust how the open-source kernel manages resources ...