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 ...

Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. (Addison-Wesley) Our old friend Robert Love, whose popular Kernel Korner column long graced these pages, has updated his classic book Linux Kernel ...

Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Here’s an irony for you: the Linux kernel is now written, ...

The development of low-level software such as drivers, kernels, hypervisors, run-times, system libraries, JITs, and firmware is very different from the development of applications. The goal of this ...

The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this month. It was August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds posted his famous message announcing the project, claiming that Linux was “just a hobby, won’t ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...