Linux Kernel 7.1 RC5 is released. Linux 7.1-rc5 is pretty big and much larger than traditional RC5 releases. Here's why.

Linus Torvalds is unhappy with AI’s impact on Linux kernel development, citing release candidate bloat and low-quality bug reports.

Torvalds is getting hardnosed about unnecessary code churn in the latest release candidate. Find out why he says AI tools are creating a major headache for kernel maintainers.

In his weekly state of the kernel update, Torvalds noted that the new RC5 is much larger than any other RC5 in recent memory, and he ...

Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has signaled he’ll push back when he receives irrelevant pull requests, after complaining that developers are making badly timed and trivial submissions, sometimes ...

Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...

Linux is getting a security wake-up call - why it was inevitable and I'm not worried ...

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Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based ...