Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux code have been fixed, but some small glitches have been introduced, according to a recent scan. In December, Coverity looked at version 2.6.9 of ...

After a two-week lag, a flaw in the latest Linux kernel that could cause systems to lose data is fixed. New bug-tracking efforts should button up future patch processes. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and it looks like no one stomps on bugs faster than a Linux developer. Between 2019 and 2021 open-source developers fixed Linux ...

A patch is currently under revision but has not yet been incorporated into the Linux kernel. A critical Linux bug has been discovered that could allow attackers to fully compromise vulnerable machines ...

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 ...

What are the problems that need to be solved to boost Linux adoption? And in what order? If we get the order right, we can make more users happier faster, says Scott Ritchie. Ritchie starts by looking ...

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple ...

Every minute of every hour of every day, software bugs are hard at work, biting computer users in the proverbial posterior. Many of them go unnoticed (the bugs, not the posteriors). More still rise to ...

Here's some news that Linux users and supporters would probably really like. Kodera Software, a game developer for an indie title called ΔV: Rings of Saturn, has posted some interesting findings about ...