kernel

Oracle Announces Availability of New DTrace 2.0 for Linux

Initially developed for Solaris, Oracle's new DTrace version promises feature-complete system tracing for all Linux users.

The 30-year-old ext2 filesystem is marked as deprecated in the upcoming Linux kernel 6.9 for lacking dates support beyond 2038.

Linux kernel 6.7's merge window is now open, and Bcachefs slid in! All indications point to things happening this time.

Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS gets a decade of support through the Civil Infrastructure Platform and its super-long-term stable (SLTS) kernel program.

Breaking changes: the Linux LTS (Long Term Support) kernel support will be reduced from six to two years. Learn more about it here!

Navigating Linux in 2023: Which are the most preferred essential components like desktop environment, init system, X and sound server, etc.?

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, suggested it is probably time for Intel i486 CPUs support to be dropped from the Linux kernel.

After Paragon's NTFS3 driver was accepted to become part of the Linux kernel last year, it has not received a single line of code maintenance.

The Dirty Pipe vulnerability allows attackers to overwrite data in read-only files and to privilege themselves with code injection.

The feature is limited to Linux systems, but probably will be possible for Windows and other operating systems soon.