After years of countless reviews, discussions, and code rewrites, Linus Torvalds approved on Saturday a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named "lockdown." The new feature will ship as a LSM ...

The Linux kernel is the beating heart of any Linux Operating System (OS), a formidable software layer that sits at the core of the computing experience, facilitating communication between hardware and ...

“wsl --update”: Microsoft provides a command (when run in an elevated PowerShell or Command Prompt) that can fetch newer ...

As is so often the case, a notable change in an upcoming Linux kernel is both historic and no big deal. What does this mean for desktop Linux? Not much. Beyond high-end audio production or replication ...

In context: Linux offers developers and engineers a means to "tune" its operations, providing thousands of individual parameters that can adjust how the open-source kernel manages resources. Tuning ...

The latest Linux kernel is out with a slew of new features -- and, for once, this release has been nice and easy. As Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): "It's ...

A novel Linux Kernel cross-cache attack named SLUBStick has a 99% success in converting a limited heap vulnerability into an arbitrary memory read-and-write capability, letting the researchers elevate ...

A vulnerability affecting Linux kernel and tracked as CVE-2022-0185 can be used to escape containers in Kubernetes, giving access to resources on the host system. Security researchers warn that ...

The Rust support is experimental. The kernel that the module is built against needs to be Rust-enabled (CONFIG_RUST=y). The kernel tree (KDIR) requires the Rust metadata to be available. These are ...