On July 4, a revised set of patches was submitted to the Linux kernel mailing list. The patch provided support for using Rust as an auxiliary programming language in the Linux kernel. With Rust,...
The search engine giant is trying hard to use Rust code in the Linux kernel, which is a major technological change after only using the C language for decades. Google said on Thursday that...
As the latest long-term support version, Linux 5.10 LTS was only planned to be maintained until the end of 2022 when it was first launched. However, after enough companies intervened to improve and test,...
The audio-related update for Linux 5.13 has been released and has been merged into the mainline. This year, PipeWire continues to gain attention in improving the sound of the Linux userspace, and the kernel’s...
Sony engineer Peter Enderborg recently proposed a new Watchdog software in an email from LKML. The full name of Watchdog is Watchdog Timer, also known as COP (Computer Operating Properly) timer, which is generally...
After deliberately introducing vulnerabilities, the entire university was banned from participating in the development of the Linux kernel; the relevant researchers at the University of Minnesota — Assistant Professor Kangjie Lu and Ph.D. students...
Google engineers expressed support for the introduction of Rust into the Linux kernel and listed some examples of Rust applied to driver development. In addition to the Linux kernel development mailing list, Google engineers...
According to the mailing list, Linux may remove the legacy IDE driver support. If the proposal goes according to plan, starting from Linux 5.13, there will be no IDE driver support for related code....
The open-source Linux operating system is changing the world in its own way, but surveys show that more open-source software and the Linux kernel need to do more work on security. For example, the...
Linux announced in 2017 that it would extend the support time limit of the “Long Term Support (LTS)” version from 2 years to 6 years. This means that the Linux 5.4 LTS released later...
Recently, Arnd Bergmann, a well-known Linux kernel developer, initiated a discussion about deleting support for a bunch of old CPU platforms. Since Linux 5.10 was officially announced as the LTS version, he found that...
The Linux kernel is an open source monolithic Unix-like computer operating system kernel. The Linux family of operating systems is based on this kernel and deployed on both traditional computer systems such as personal computers and servers, usually in the form of Linux distributions, and on various embedded...
According to the Microsoft Windows blog, in the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19645, Microsoft has adjusted the Linux kernel service model in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). In Windows 10 Version 2004...
Recently, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel developer and maintainer, announced that the end of life (EOL) support for Linux kernel versions 4.19 and 5.4 will be extended from two years to six years, to 2024...
The automated test platform KernelCI has become a part of the Linux Foundation. KernelCI is a community-based open-source distributed test automation system focused on upstream Linux kernel development. The project has now received funding...
After years of evaluation, discussion, and rewriting, Linus Torvalds approved the kernel lockdown feature. The new feature LSM (Linux Security Module) will be available to users with Linux kernel 5.4. It will restrict user-space...
