Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Honors Program, University of Alabama at ...

Anybody can contribute to the Linux kernel, but any person’s commit suggestion can become the focus of the kernel’s master and namesake, Linus Torvalds. Torvalds is famously not overly committed to ...

There's growing interest in a new type of software for Linux machines called BPF, which allows the user to run a program in the kernel and enjoy "observability super powers", according to Brendan ...

On Jan. 19, Linus Torvalds officially released the Linux 6.13 kernel. I can't call the 6.13 kernel a major release, but it's still a step forward in performance, security, and hardware support. That's ...