Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...

The main driving force behind this is Red Hat developer Jocelyn Falempe, who has been pushing for the switch to Kmscon for ...

Monterrey, California: At the Linux Foundation Members Summit, Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and executive editor of Linux Weekly News, explained where the pain points are for Linux kernel ...

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who can blow a deadline. Linux Torvalds confessed that he'd love to have had "some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular ...

The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions ...

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based ...

When Rust was first proposed as a language for the Linux kernel, many of us were skeptical. C has been the backbone of the ...

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenVPN announced today that Data Channel Offload (DCO) has been officially green-lit for inclusion in the Linux kernel and will be part of the official ...

There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) ...