Kernel News and Articles

A research group in the computer sciences faculty at North Carolina State University has written a prototype to prevent rootkits from manipulating kernel object hooks to do their damage.

A null-pointer dereference in the Linux kernel allows local users to assume root privileges. Brad Spengler, who claims first discovery, announced that he will present a corresponding exploit during the course of the day.

The Linux-Kongress is traditionally where kernel developers exchange honors and advice about new features and enhancements. This year a number of speakers presented performance improvement data and discussed what aspects of Linux can be drawn out even more.

The recently released version 2.0 of Moblin elicited significant feedback. One frequently posed question was, why not ext4?

Linus Torvalds has announced RC1 for Linux Kernel 2.6.32.

If it were to go by Project Boot.kernel.org, practially all distros in the foreseeable future would boot off the Internet.

If you missed LinuxCon, you can watch the roundtable video archive online now.