The lean-coded, fast, modern, and secure WireGuard VPN protocol has made it into the Linux kernel as Linus Torvalds merged it into his source tree for version 5.6. The wait is closely coming to an end ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, officially incorporated ' PREEMPT_RT ', known as Real Time Linux, into the Linux kernel on September 20, 2024. Merge tag 'sched ...

Warning: this article contains profanity. Linus Torvalds recently stepped away from kernel development temporarily in order to think about how to be less harsh with developers in certain situations.

The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...

December 17, 2020-- Xiphera's Linux driver for the XIP8001B TRNG (True Random Number Generator) Intellectual Property (IP) core has been added to the Linux kernel source tree. The ability to create ...

I read the previous review and I don't understand the fuss about Wireguard. I'm certainly not using a kernel VPN unless a overland one is significantly worse- vulnerabilities in kernel-level code tend ...

It was shocking to learn yesterday that Kernel.org was hacked last month. News like that is routine in the world at large, but not in the home of the all-important heart of Linux. Investigations are ...

On Monday this week, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman removed the drivers for Android from the Linux kernel’s staging tree, thus insuring that–for now–Android is not headed for the mainstream Linux ...

Editor's Note: Linux remains an attractive option for embedded systems developers. In fact, industry surveys such as the Embedded Market Study by UBM (EDN's parent company) consistently show interest ...

An attempt by an unknown attacker to plant a Trojan virus in the Linux kernel has been blocked. On Wednesday, kernel developers discovered that a server hosting a copy of the Linux source code had ...

It will be interesting in that this could allow embedded devices using the kernel and other things to use a VPN relatively easily. On the other hand when all my ...