Live patching is a way of updating a running system without stopping it. It is best known as a technique for keeping Linux servers updated to the latest security levels without affecting downtime.

Nobody loves a reboot, especially not if it involves a late-breaking patch for a kernel-level issue that has to be applied stat. To that end, three projects are in the works to provide a mechanism for ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. If there’s one thing that Linux needs to aid its march onwards it is (arguably) more enterprise robustness.

Enterprise Linux users face growing risks from software vulnerabilities, especially given their widespread reliance on open-source code in Linux applications and commercial software. Live kernel ...

Nobody loves downtime or reboots — especially not Suse. But the Linux engineers at Suse didn’t just sit there and grind their teeth over forced reboots after a kernel patch; they went out and did ...

The Linux kernel team has released a patch to fix a security bug that could allow an attacker to execute code with elevated privileges. The issue — tracked as CVE-2017-15265 — is a use-after-free ...

CISA has ordered federal agencies to secure their systems within three weeks against a high-severity Linux kernel flaw actively exploited in attacks. The driver's inability to accurately parse ...

Linux users working on laptops and other portable devices may soon have cause to rejoice thanks to a new kernel patch that finally promises to fix power regression problems associated with recent ...

Linux 4.0 is almost upon us! It’s codenamed “Hurr durr I’ma sheep.” Yes, seriously. Linux kernels have weird codenames. Setting aside the head-scratching title, Linux 4.0 isn’t a massive change from ...

Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 8.1. The new point release comes six months after the release of RHEL 8 and brings new security measures. The biggest addition is live kernel patching.

An Intel engineer who contributes to the Linux kernel has released a set of patches that conceal some of the f-bombs that Linux kernel developers have added to kernel code comments over the years. The ...