The Linux kernel development community is emphasizing the need for open source device drivers, in a statement released Monday. While the vast majority of device drivers have open source, there are a ...

It wasn’t a public highlight of WWDC, but I learned here that Apple has elected to open the source for the x86 Darwin kernel and created an official project to maintain it and act as a liaison between ...

The open-source community is celebrating a well-deserved recognition. Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the most influential figures in the Linux ecosystem, has been awarded the European Open Source Award, ...

The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan ...

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...

HelenOS is a microkernel-based OS aiming to be a research vehicle for operating system design. Aesthetically, HelenOS resembles Windows 3.1 and 95 with nostalgic appeal. HelenOS is in early stages of ...

Nvidia is ready to fully transition to an open-source GPU kernel with the upcoming R560 drivers. For those who came in late, in 2022 Nvidia started to support an open-sauce Linux GPU kernel driver ...

Mobile and embedded systems are the hidden workhorses of modern technology—from the smartphones in our pockets to IoT devices in our homes and industries. At the heart of these systems lies the ...

In a nutshell: Android's kernel is based on the long-term support branches of the Linux kernel. LTS releases are essential for the well-being of Google's mobile OS, so much so that the company decided ...

Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new issues however, and as greybeards are wont to point ...

It’s fair to say that the topic of so-called ‘AI coding assistants’ is somewhat controversial. With arguments against them ...