The Linux kernel is a free and open-source,: 4  UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...

This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel. Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated...

on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution...

Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has...

The Linux kernel provides multiple interfaces to user-space and kernel-mode code that are used for varying purposes and that have varying properties by...

Enterprise Linux 8.0, May 7, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-05-07), uses Linux kernel 4.18.0-80 8.1, November 5, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-11-05), uses Linux kernel 4.18...

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor...

a Linux kernel image, and execution of various startup scripts and daemons. Those are grouped into 4 steps: system startup, bootloader stage, kernel stage...

/usr/kernel. When running a DEBUG kernel build the system actively attempts to unload modules. Linux does not provide a stable API or ABI for kernel modules...

compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables (in ELF format) by implementing Linux system calls on the Windows kernel. It is available on Windows...

Compatible Kernel (RHCK) – identical to the kernel shipped in RHEL Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) – based on newer mainline Linux kernel versions,...

Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git. He was honored...

following is an implementation of the Linux kernel final initialization in kernel_init(): static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused) { ... /* * We try...

continue to do so. As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script...

computing, an oops is a serious but non-fatal error in the Linux kernel. An oops may precede a kernel panic, but it may also allow continued operation with...

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package...

The GNU/Linux naming controversy is a controversy regarding whether computer operating systems that use GNU software and the Linux kernel should be referred...

The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is the main electronic mailing list for Linux kernel development, where the majority of the announcements, discussions...

provides an Alpine Linux specific build "Re: [leaf-devel] 2.6.x kernel support?". SourceForge. "Alpine 3.20.0 released | Alpine Linux". 22 May 2024. Retrieved...

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including...

Modern monolithic kernels, such as the Linux kernel, the FreeBSD kernel, the AIX kernel, the HP-UX kernel, and the Solaris kernel, all of which fall...

kernel.org is the main distribution point of source code for the Linux kernel, which is the base of the Linux operating system. The website and related...

to the Free Software Foundation Latin America, Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code,...

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a subsystem of the Linux kernel responsible for interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that...

Namespaces are a feature of the Linux kernel that partition kernel resources such that one set of processes sees one set of resources, while another set...

Asahi Linux is a project that ports the Linux kernel and related software to Apple Silicon-powered Macs. The software design project was started and is...

version. It currently features version 5.27 of the KDE Plasma desktop and Linux kernel 6.0 (or later). This edition was first released on August 16, 2020. AHS...

UEFI application, a Linux kernel image with EFI Boot Stub enabled can be directly loaded and executed by a UEFI firmware. Such kernel images can still be...

The Linux console is a system console internal to the Linux kernel. A system console is the device which receives all kernel messages and warnings and...

system kernel. It is the successor to the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF, with the "e" originally meaning "extended") filtering mechanism in Linux and is...