Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

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 ...

The Linux kernel, foundational for servers, desktops, embedded systems, and cloud infrastructure, has been under heightened scrutiny. Several vulnerabilities have been exploited in real-world attacks, ...

Abstract: Linux kernels are being widely deployed in embedded applications, such as increasingly automated vehicles and robots, due to their robust ecosystem. Security modules have been developed to ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative advancement. This is particularly true in the realm of Linux-based ...

Microsoft’s move to the cloud-native world means it’s now the custodian of several quite different Linux distributions. Some are internal tools that run deep parts of Azure’s networking infrastructure ...

Big quote: Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux kernel, firmly rejected a code contribution intended to enhance RISC-V architecture support in the upcoming Linux 6.17 release.

Security researchers have discovered an unusually evasive Linux backdoor, undetected even by VirusTotal, compromising systems as a malicious pluggable authentication module (PAM). Dubbed “Plague” by ...

Abstract: This paper aims to explore and address the real-time performance limitations of embedded Linux systems by introducing a dual-kernel architecture strategy, with the hope of significantly ...

Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...