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. If you’re new to Linux, you ...

Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down.

Over the last three years, the number of developers of the Linux kernel has tripled, according to the Linux Foundation. A research team from the organization has reported that the growth of the open ...

The kernel has come a long way since Linus branched off 2.4.15 to create 2.5.0 back on November 22, 2001. Since then, rapid development has ensued, resulting in a drastically different and ...

I’m not sure we talk about Linux enough. For those of us who have grown up in open source, as well as those new to open source, we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to the pioneering work by the Linux ...

Linux kernel Rust adoption is now permanent after memory safety bugs drove an estimated 80 percent of kernel CVEs, Greg Kroah-Hartman says. The 35th anniversary edition explains what Rust's compiler ...