After going through eight different release candidates, Linux engineer Linus Torvalds officially announced the release of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch on Monday, marking the end of a long and arduous ...

The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further embracing AI. More than half a dozen distros will let ...

The embedded computing universe includes computers of all sizes, from tiny portable devices--such as wristwatch cameras--to systems having thousands of nodes distributed worldwide, as is the case with ...

These bugs may be exploited over-the-air via malicious packets on untrusted wireless networks, making them a significant threat Linux has received patches for five Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that were ...

While the phrase "640KB RAM ought to be enough for anybody" was falsely attributed to Bill Gates, it definitely outlines a way many of us think about the computing limits we're faced with. At the time ...

If I tell you to think of an open-source project, the first word that probably comes to mind is Linux. Then, if I ask you what open-source actually means, you'd probably say something like: "Open ...