Linus Torvalds has announced the release of version 3.0 of the Linux kernel. Although the version bump, which takes the kernel straight from 2.6.39 to 3.0, suggests a release of some significance, ...

After the web learned earlier this week that the final name of Vista's successor was Windows 7, all hell broke loose. The general consensus was that Windows 7 wasn't a bad name, but the reasoning ...

Microsoft is informing developers that the kernel version number for Windows 10 is going to be hiked straight to version 10 shortly. The kernel number has been out of sync with Windows release number ...

Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds seems delighted with the first release candidate (rc1) of the Linux kernel version 5.8, which contains 800,000 new lines of code and over 14,000 changed files, ...

It took its own sweet time -- over 20 years! -- but real-time Linux finally made it into the mainline Linux kernel. It's baked inside Linux kernel version 6.12. This is a major new release. Linux 6.12 ...

A Kernel Potato: Ubuntu is one of most popular Linux distributions available, it is a free and open source operating system based on Debian, and is used by both end users and enterprise ventures. It's ...

Source is a wonderful thing. Merged module source in the kernel tree is even better. Most of all, support for that source is what really counts. In today's explosion of Linux in the enterprise, the ...