I've been building my own kernels on Ubuntu (technically, Kubuntu 14.04) for years, using `make-kpkg` from the kernel-package package. All I had to do after ...

Note: this article is a followup to Zack Brown's "Android Low Memory Killer—In or Out?" Linux kernel headers are the unstable, constantly-changing, internal API of the kernel. This includes internal ...

Kernel modules are chunks of code that are loaded and unloaded into the kernel as needed, thus extending the functionality of the kernel without requiring a reboot. In fact, unless users inquire about ...

Members of the open source community are working on a new security-focused project for the Linux kernel. Named Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG), this is a loadable kernel module that will perform ...

Blacklisting modules prevents them from being loaded and used, and it is sometimes an important step in keeping a system running properly. The Linux kernel is modular — composed of modules that work ...