The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by Sasha Levin, a distinguished engineer at Nvidia and ...

Dirty Frag exposes Linux systems to root escalation through chained kernel flaws, impacting Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, and others.

Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...

You can use Linux 7.0 on these 7 distros today - here's what to expect ...

Note: this article is a followup to Zack Brown's "Android Low Memory Killer—In or Out?" Linux kernel headers are the unstable, constantly-changing, internal API of the kernel. This includes internal ...

Debian developers alerted Linux users late last week of a new build, linux-2.6 that fixes 11 separate vulnerabilities that could open the kernel to a denial of service attack, information leak or ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

OpenWrt provides an environment for building custom, Linux kernel-based firmware for a variety of embedded devices. Originally targeting the Linksys WRT54G series of routers, OpenWrt now provides ...

I will show that it's possible to install, configure, and use this Linux distribution with absolutely no command-line access. This report was released at the invitation-only Linux Kernel Summit in ...