Intel has announced that the Linux kernel for its next-generation 64-bit Merced chips will be available as open source code. Merced, Intel's first chip built around the 64-bit IA-64 architecture is scheduled for release in the middle of 2000, with...
An unknown intruder attempted to insert a Trojan horse program into the code of the next version of the Linux kernel, stored at a publicly accessible database. The public database was used only to provide the latest beta, or test version, of the...
Open Source Development Labs, which promotes adoption of Linux, said on Monday it is putting in place a new system to better track and document changes to the operating system's kernel. The group, which employs Linux creator Linus Torvalds, said...
Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered databases and improves how the open source operating system runs on multiprocessor systems.
Andrew Morton, the lead maintainer of the Linux production kernel, is worried that an increasing number of defects are appearing in the 2.6 kernel and is considering drastic action to resolve it. In a talk at the LinuxTag conference in Wiesbaden...
The researcher, who goes by the initials 'LMH', wrote: "Mac OS X com.apple.AppleDiskImageController fails to properly handle corrupted DMG (disk image) image structures, leading to an exploitable memory corruption condition with potential kernel...
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