After years of debate and development, bcachefs—a modern copy-on-write filesystem once merged into the Linux kernel—is being removed from mainline. As of kernel 6.17, the in-kernel implementation has ...

Linux users tend to use several technical jargon that originated from when the kernel was developed. Take Hostname as an example, which is a technical term for your PC’s name. Now, if you’ve been ...

It’s been a tense few months for users of the BCacheFS filesystem, as amidst the occasional terse arguments and flowery self-praise on the Linux Kernel mailing list the future of this filesystem ...

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenVPN announced today that Data Channel Offload (DCO) has been officially green-lit for inclusion in the Linux kernel and will be part of the official ...

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who can blow a deadline. Linux Torvalds confessed that he'd love to have had "some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular ...

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Last week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current maintainer of the stable branch of the open source Linux kernel, issued a message on the Linux code maintainers mail list announcing that it was removing ...

Google announced a new program called longevity GRF earlier this year that makes it easier for chipset vendors to support their platforms for 7 years of Android updates. Chipsets under longevity GRF ...

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 ...

Kernel drivers are the bridge between the Linux operating system and the hardware components of a computer. They play a crucial role in managing and facilitating communication between the OS and ...