Back in July, Linus Torvalds was worried the next update of the Linux kernel might be "one of those releases that may drag out" because most of Europe goes on vacation during August. It turns out that ...

Before Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 6.6 kernel, he said there'd also been a musical documentary made about it -- which was actually Iron Maiden's music video for 'The Number Of ...

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Linus Torvalds, head and founder of the Linux kernel, has announced the closure of the merge window where major new features are added to the kernel, and the beginning of the Linux 6.16 release ...

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Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel – signalling the end of the line for 486-class chips.… Torvalds announced kernel 6.15 on Sunday, after a short last-minute ...

The new Linux kernel 6.13 appeared on time after seven release candidates at night from Sunday to Monday. The inclusion of critical patches, which are also to be incorporated into the predecessor ...

Linus Torvalds released the next Linux kernel in the night from Sunday to Monday. As is so often the case, well over half of the changes in Linux 6.12 concern new, adapted and extended drivers. Around ...

When will Linux 6.7 become stable? We can expect the final release of the new kernel either on December 31 or in a few days. These timings are consistent with Linus' usual practice of releasing new ...

Free operating system Linux is looking to Windows as its role model, at least in this one way: implementing its own Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to warn users in cases of a kernel panic. The BSOD—with ...

There’s never been a better time to give Linux a try. Wait, don’t slam on that back button! I’m not one of those rabid “Year of the Linux desktop” types. Windows works just fine for hundreds of ...