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All vendor kernels are plagued with security vulnerabilities, according to a CIQ whitepaper. Will the Linux community ever accept upstream stable kernels?
At Open Source Summit Japan, Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman recaps the current state and future challenges of kernel security, including the specter of government regulation and the essential pain of unceasing updates.
Linux will support the Rust programming language in its kernel from version 6.1.
"This Monday, the first set of patches to enable Rust support and tooling was merged for Linux 6.1," writes Slashdot reader sabian2008, sharing an update from longtime kernel developer Kees Cook: The tree has a recent base, but has fundamentally been in linux-next for a year and a half. It's been u...