Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...

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The process of building a kernel has two parts: configuring the kernel options and building the source with those options. In versions before the 2.5 kernel, configuration was driven by a Config.in ...

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Kroah-Hartman argued that the "best beauty of Rust" is catching those mistakes at build time rather than in review. For ...

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It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.

Debian developers alerted Linux users late last week of a new build, linux-2.6 that fixes 11 separate vulnerabilities that could open the kernel to a denial of service attack, information leak or ...

Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, ...

Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...