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Since February, there've been 800 newly assigned CVEs. Your job? Update your main Linux distro more often.

An alert developer appears to have prevented a backdoor — likely introduced into a compression utility by state-backed actors — from being d...

Its official - the next long-term support version of Linux is October 2023s Linux 6.6.

Everyone uses Linux, and companies are willing to pay to develop it, but maintaining Linuxs code? Thats another matter.

Its fading from memory, but if it werent for GNU and the Free Software Foundation, open-source, and Linux, indeed, most of our technology-driven world wouldnt be here.

Linux's six-year long-term support was meant to help embedded devices.

The Open Source Summit provides an update on whats new in the Linux kernel​ and where its going from here.

Five Wi-Fi vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel have been patched and a new stable kernel, 5.10.148, released by stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Ha...

The Free Software Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to promoting user freedom, has appointed Zoë Kooyman as executive director. Kooyman, 38, joined t...

iTWire Thursday, 06 May 2021 08:52 Linux buggy patch affair ends with technical advisory board report Shares Pixabay The technical advisory board of the Linux Foundation has asked the University of Minnesota to improve the quality of patches it submits to the kernel project and also follow a "best practices" document to be created by the board. In a detailed report posted to the kernel mailing list, the TAB said: "We have two specific recommendations designed to ensure that t...