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2.6.26.1 has been released today. See changelog for full details. Files added: 1Files changed: 72Files removed: 0 Kernel release: 2.6.25.14, Aug 01, 20082.6.25.14 has been released today. See changelog for full details. Files added: 0Files changed: 3

Linux developers fix kernel security holes out in the open. Is a bug a bug, or do security-related fixes deserve special treatment?

2.6.26-rc9 has been released today. See changelog for full details. Files added: 951Files changed: 8658Files removed: 492 Kernel release: 2.6.25.10, Jul 03, 20082.6.25.10 has been released today. See changelog for full details. Files added: 0Fil

A report from the Linux Foundation details individual kernel contributions and suggests enterprise use is expanding.

Linux's Security Through Obscurity

An anonymous reader writes "The age-old full disclosure debate has been raging again, this time in no other place than at the foundations of the open-source flagship GNU/Linux operating system: within the Linux kernel itself. It beggars belief, but even Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, has advocated against the sort of openness on which Linux has thrived, arguing that security fixes to the kernel should be obscured in changelogs, saying 'If it's not a very public security issue already, I don't want a simple "git log + grep" to help find it.' Unfortunately, it's not kernel exploit writers who need to grep the changelog in order to find kernel vulnerabilities. On the contrary, it's downstream distributors who rely on changelog information in order to decide when to patch the kernels of their distributions, in order to keep their users safe.

2.6.27-rc5 has been released today. See changelog for full details. Files added: 4034Files changed: 14923Files removed: 3955 Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software, Aug 28, 2008Quebec's open-source software association is suing the

The very heart of the Linux operating system is the kernel, the piece of software which makes programs run and work with hardware. It's possibly the largest and most geographical spread open source project in the world. With software projects failing daily how can such a task actually work?

2.6.16.61 has been released today. See changelog for full details. Files added: 51Files changed: 849Files removed: 4 Linux based virtualisation - the way to save money and go green, Jul 14, 2008Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonder

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released version 2.6.26 of the Linux kernel after a lengthy three-month development stretch since the 2.6.25 release involving nine release candidates.

Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference Monday morning. Kernel release: 2.6.16.62, Jul 21, 20082.6.16.62 has been released today. See changelog fo

Linux is set to make a major impact in the mobile computing realm, the executive director of the Linux Foundation stressed at a conference Monday morning.

Kernel release: 2.6.25.14-rc1

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