An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code owned by ...

In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are ...

NAPA, Calif. — In the immortal words of song developer Pete Townshend, “Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) I really wanna know!” Linux kernel maintainers have the same question: Who ...

A proposal to cut legacy Arm support in Linux draws different lines even within the same product family. Patches and developer discussion show the removal timeline, CPU-specific maintenance burdens, ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator and top-level maintainer of the Linux kernel, has drawn a line in the sand. In a lengthy post on the Linux kernel mailing list dated July 15, 2026, he declared that ...

The widespread introduction of AI-powered coding tools has led to some dramatic splits between those integrating those tools into their workflows and anti-AI absolutists who don’t want large language ...