alexsl/Getty Images The Linux Foundation’s Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan 2023, Kroah-Hartman — Linux stable kernel maintainer and a prominent member of the Linux kernel security team — shed light on the evolving … Read more
Johnny Johnson/Getty Images If you follow Linux closely, you won’t be surprised by the news from the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia — which is the invite-only meeting for top Linux kernel developers — that the recently released Linux 6.6 is the next long-term support version (LTS) of Linux. Some people had thought the next … Read more
Image Source/Getty Images Richmond, Virginia: At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to tune the Linux kernel for the maximum results for specific workloads. Also: Rust in Linux: Where we are and … Read more
Nitat Termmee/Moment/Getty Images When I recently reported that the long-term support for some Linux kernels would be cut, people were upset. Mind you, the Linux kernel community knew that very few people were using these graying kernels, but it still got under people’s skins. For those folks, and for those who actually need a kernel … Read more