Mid-November release will be maintained for 'several years' Last month's new version of the Linux kernel, 6.12, has been confirmed as the newest LTS release… which also marks the end of the line for ...

A Kernel Potato: Ubuntu is one of most popular Linux distributions available, it is a free and open source operating system based on Debian, and is used by both end users and enterprise ventures. It's ...

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of version 3.0 of the Linux kernel. Although the version bump, which takes the kernel straight from 2.6.39 to 3.0, suggests a release of some significance, ...

The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems. Among the improvements are an ...

Linus Torvalds, creator and curator of the Linux kernel, has a quandary on his hands: should he stick to Linux’s long-time tradition of massive, multple-decimal-point version numbers, or should he ...

What can your Linux system tell you about the Linux kernel it's using? Let's do a little probing and see. How much can your Linux system tell you about the kernel it’s running and what commands are ...

If you follow Linux closely, you won't be surprised by the news from the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia -- which is the invite-only meeting for top Linux kernel developers -- that the ...