A study of the Linux kernel, right from its first commit on 17 September 1991 to 2 August this year, shows that it has had more than 20,000 contributors in those 29 years. The first kernel, linux-0.01 ...
The overall volume of kernel CVEs continues to climb: one security commentary noted the first 16 days of 2025 already saw 134 ...
CVE-2024-1086, a Linux kernel flaw, is now exploited in active ransomware campaigns The bug enables local privilege ...
The open source Linux operating system kernel that powers innumerable distributions turns 25 years old this year. Sporting just 10,000 or so lines of code in 1991 when Finnish CompSci Master’s student ...
CISA confirmed on Thursday that a high-severity privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel is now being exploited in ...
Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down.
I’m not sure we talk about Linux enough. For those of us who have grown up in open source, as well as those new to open source, we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to the pioneering work by the Linux ...