Google rebuilt Android’s kernel using AutoFDO and real app data, boosting performance, speeding system calls, and improving app launches.

Linus Torvalds kicked off the development of Linux Kernel 7.0 on Sunday. Two weeks after the release of the last kernel 6.19, he closed the so-called merge window and released the first release ...

Big quote: Linus Torvalds, the founder and lead developer of the Linux kernel, firmly rejected a code contribution intended to enhance RISC-V architecture support in the upcoming Linux 6.17 release.

Linus Torvalds has given developers a heads-up that the merge window for Linux kernel 6.17 could be “slightly chaotic”. In his release announcement on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds ...

What just happened? Given that there was a time when Microsoft called Linux a "cancer," it's little surprise that the Redmond firm's co-founder and long-time boss Bill Gates had never met Linus ...

The Linux kernel just hit a major milestone: on May 25, 2025, the first fully Rust-written DRM driver, dubbed NOVA, was officially merged into Linux kernel 6.15. This isn’t some forgotten experimental ...

Meta has introduced KernelLLM, an 8-billion-parameter language model fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 Instruct, aimed at automating the translation of PyTorch modules into efficient Triton GPU kernels. This ...

Khan's involvement with the Linux kernel dates back to 2011 when she started working on integrating Android code into the Linux kernel. Her experience in this complex environment highlighted the need ...

Pixel users have been reporting persistent display stuttering issues, especially when scrolling through apps. An Android kernel developer traced the issue to a wrong function in Tensor’s exynos_bts ...