Want to speed up your Linux desktop without compiling a new kernel? You don’t need a 200-plus line patch for the Linux kernel when a couple of lines of Bash will do the trick. A few days ago a kernel ...

LKRG (short for Linux Kernel Runtime Guard) is a loadable kernel module that continuously monitors the health and integrity ...

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux ...

There's a lot of people involved.

After a Linux kernel patch with 275K lines of code came out on Friday, the people over at Phoronix began to snoop around for any hidden information. Among the lines of code, they discovered that the ...

Linux kernel developers have successfully addressed Retbleed, the latest Spectre-like speculative execution attack against older AMD and Intel processors, Linus Torvalds wrote in a message to the ...

The result is that it isn't terribly often that the chance to interrupt a kernel thread occurs with the preemptibility patch in place. It's still usually a user-level task that's being ...