A vestige of Linux's SMP past is still making trouble for users of heavily loaded systems. Developers say the solution isn't to fix the Big Kernel Lock, but to uproot it entirely.

Step by step, the Rust programming language is moving deeper into the Linux kernel.

By programming all functionality in the kernel, we can make gains in performance. The data corresponding to any application that sends or receives packets is copied from user mode to kernel mode and ...

Kernel awareness provides on-demand views of kernel data structures such as threads, queues, semaphores, and other objects of interest during the debug process.

The recently announced proposal to make the Rust programming language one of two main languages for the Linux kernel is getting a major boost thanks to Google and the Internet Security Research ...

An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. By Michelle Delio.

The memory safe programming language will join C and the other traditional languages developers use to create new pieces and drivers of the ubiquitous open source kernel.

The software maker is providing its security partners with more information about the programming interfaces it will use to allow greater kernel interaction with the 64-bit version of Vista.