Ubuntu has become the first Linux OS to allow users to enable live kernel patching on their systems -- for free. Users can enable live patching on three devices, for free, before having to pay.

Live patching is a way of updating a running system without stopping it. It is best known as a technique for keeping Linux servers updated to the latest security levels without affecting downtime.

I've patched my linux-2.4.20 kernel source with the ck6 kernel patch. Now, exactly which options do I need to enable in the config to give the optimum ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CloudLinux announced today that its KernelCare service now supports the Raspberry Pi platform providing live patching for the running kernel with zero downtime -- ...

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has announced that it will provide a live kernel patching services for version 16.04 which was released in April. Users will be able to ...

On a well-maintained Linux system, months can go by without needing to reboot. Sooner or later, however, a security patch to the Linux kernel will require you to reboot your machine. That's not a real ...

Hi everybody,<BR><BR>I'm a little confused about patching the kernel source. Everything used to make sense for me. If I had 2.6.3 and 2.6.4 came out, I just needed to get patch-2.6.4, and I'd be all ...

What a difference 233 lines of code can make. That’s the size of a small new patch to the Linux kernel’s scheduler that has been found to reduce the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times.