System administrators who work with both Linux servers and macOS workstations will find plenty of familiar concepts when opening Terminal: processes, signals, sockets, permissions, file descriptors, and POSIX system calls.
Linux 7.3 is still under development, but the improvements landing during its merge window point to a particularly interesting release for storage, latency, memory management and hybrid processors. Btrfs, EXT4,
Linux 7.2 is now available as a stable release, bringing changes of particular interest to system administrators, infrastructure teams and Linux users working with many-core servers, Btrfs storage or virtualization.
Updating the Linux kernel remains one of those operations that makes system administrators check the maintenance window twice. Live patching can fix certain vulnerabilities without rebooting, but installing an entirely
Linux 7.1 arrived on 14 June 2026 with a figure that captures the change sweeping through software development: 530 people contributed to the kernel for the first time during this
AI coding agents have improved a lot at generating code, refactoring and analysing projects, but they still face a very basic problem: finding useful context inside large repositories. Reading file
Fragnesia, tracked as CVE-2026-46300, has once again put the spotlight on a particularly sensitive area of the Linux kernel: networking paths related to XFRM, ESP and IPsec. For system administrators,
CloudLinux has warned about a new Linux kernel vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-31431 and known as “Copy Fail”, affecting CloudLinux 7h, 8, 9, and 10. The company warns that an unprivileged
In 2005, the development of the Linux kernel faced a crisis that could have slowed down one of the most important free software projects in history. For years, Linus Torvalds
The Linux kernel is preparing to say goodbye to one of the oldest processor families it has continued to carry for far longer than most modern operating systems. Developers have
