BEST: Make all of your changes to upstream Linux. If appropriate, backport to the stable releases. These patches will be merged automatically in the corresponding common kernels. If the patch is ...

I never compiled a kernel before because I never had to.<BR>I just upgraded my kernel using synaptic.<BR>I would like to give a try at it, but I need a .config file.<BR>I would like to compile the ...

Linux kernel ===== There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read ...

The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...

All Linux distributions provide a wide range of network applications—from dæmons that provide a variety of services such as WWW, mail and SSH to client programs that access one or more of these ...

It was shocking to learn yesterday that Kernel.org was hacked last month. News like that is routine in the world at large, but not in the home of the all-important heart of Linux. Investigations are ...

Topic ===== local root exploit in Linux kernel due to bug in brk() system call Problem Description ===== A flaw in bounds checking in the do_brk() function in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.22 and ...

For future driver versions, Nvidia prefers its open source kernel driver. The community has problems with this and is working on alternatives. Nvidia's next generation of graphics drivers will install ...