Torvalds warns of "random noise" as the latest kernel update shifts focus from drivers to high-risk core filesystem and networking changes.

It's not that Linux's core developers are "old." After all, Linus Torvalds, Mr. Linux himself, is only 42. But for a few years now, the core Linux kernel developers have been aware that the top ...

Nearly 2,000 developers started contributing to Linux in the past 15 months, making up nearly half of all developers writing code for the open source operating system kernel. The new developers are ...

Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...

Intel’s renewed effort to hire Linux graphics developers is a positive sign for the open-source community. By expanding its Linux GPU team and focusing on both gaming and high-performance workloads, ...

The open-source operating system project is steadily growing through any number of measurements: programmers, updates, and changes per hour. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

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Linus Torvalds has released RC1 of Kernel 7.0 two weeks after the release of Kernel 6.19. It is intended to be stable.

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