Linux Kernel 6.9 Released — And It’s Packed with Improvements

Linux kernel 6.9 has been released after several months of attentive development. Linux founder Linus Torvalds announced the final release on the Linux ...

Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix

All vendor kernels are plagued with security vulnerabilities, according to a CIQ whitepaper. Will the Linux community ever accept upstream stable kernels?

Linux 6.9 arrives, plus Torvalds indicates Arm64 will get a bit more love

New support for Intel's FRED will make the switches between CPU protection rings quicker. The code patch summarizes the benefits, but itself is quite long. Over on the AMD side of the tracks, 6.9 ...

Long-term supported distros' kernel policies are all wrong

All that is needed is for the enterprise distro vendors to choose the upstream long term support kernel releases for their long term support distro releases. Then, this problem would effectively go ...

Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach

The unknown attackers behind the compromise infected at least four servers inside kernel.org, the Internet domain underpinning the sprawling Linux development and distribution network, the researchers ...