Linus Torvalds has been at the forefront of the Linux kernel development project for over 34 years, since the birth of Linux in 1991. A contingency plan was created in case a smooth transition from ...

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Following Wayland, another technology is poised to displace the old guard: In Fedora, a program running in userspace, rather than the Linux kernel, will soon be responsible for providing Virtual ...

AI One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it AI Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response ...

The Linux kernel development cycle continues with the release of Linux 6.19-rc4, the fourth release candidate in the lead-up to the final 6.19 stable kernel. As with previous RC builds, this release ...

After years of debate and development, bcachefs—a modern copy-on-write filesystem once merged into the Linux kernel—is being removed from mainline. As of kernel 6.17, the in-kernel implementation has ...

It’s been a tense few months for users of the BCacheFS filesystem, as amidst the occasional terse arguments and flowery self-praise on the Linux Kernel mailing list the future of this filesystem ...

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.

Linus Torvalds, the head and founder of the Linux kernel, has announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc3. This release comes with fixes for new features that were introduced during the merge window ...

To paraphrase an old joke: How do you know if someone is a Rust developer? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. There is a move to put Rust everywhere, even in the Linux kernel. Not going fast enough for ...

Mobile and embedded systems are the hidden workhorses of modern technology—from the smartphones in our pockets to IoT devices in our homes and industries. At the heart of these systems lies the ...