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 ...

I'm running Centos 6.9 on a VPS and did a yum update the other day. I noticed that it removed the 2.6 kernel and installed version 4.9 from the "centos-virt-xen" repo. I'm do not recall adding this ...

After the web learned earlier this week that the final name of Vista's successor was Windows 7, all hell broke loose. The general consensus was that Windows 7 wasn't a bad name, but the reasoning ...

Android, Debian and Ubuntu users are still at risk. A high-severity cache invalidation bug in the Linux kernel has been uncovered, which could allow an attacker to gain root privileges on the targeted ...

The overall volume of kernel CVEs continues to climb: one security commentary noted the first 16 days of 2025 already saw 134 ...

Linus Torvalds signed off on the latest Linux kernel version last week – 2.6.21 – with several virtualization- and networking-focused improvements in the mix. One of the most significant additions to ...

Open source developers on Sunday released the latest stable version of the Linux kernel, version 2.6.26, adding improvements for wireless, virtualization, multimedia and other features. New kernel ...

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel can be exploited to leak data and act as a springboard for further compromise. Disclosed by Cisco Talos researchers on Tuesday, the bug is ...

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.

After being caught off guard by the disclosure of a serious flaw in the Linux kernel this week, Google has quickly developed a patch for Android and shared it with device manufacturers. It might take ...