The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions ...

Penguins need their sleep, but Linux admins must never rest. But, if you want a broad, quick overview of the state of the Linux kernel, do what I did: catch Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, ...

Vienna, Austria: Linus Torvalds and I are both in Vienna, which is being blasted by a storm. So, instead of looking at museums, I spent my time writing, and he spent his time releasing the Linux 6.11 ...

On Sunday, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel 7.2. There were major changes in the final development sprint.

LLMs are great at finding Linux kernel bottlenecks but not reliable at producing clean fixes. Generated fixes were 'hideous' ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further ...

Linux 7.2 focuses on modernization. A new GPU scheduler ensures more fairness, while CPU scheduling now uses CPU caches more efficiently.

Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the kernel's cryptographic subsystem. The proposed change is part of a broader ...

HDMI 2.1 has long been a goalpost for many players in the Linux world, including Valve and AMD, who were both previously ...

The project to enable the writing of kernel code in Rust has been underway for several years, and each kernel release includes more Rust code. Even so, some developers have expressed frustration at ...