The makers of systems programming language Rust are looking at how to adapt the language for use in the Linux kernel. Josh Triplett, a former Intel engineer and a lead of the Rust language team, says ...

The recently announced proposal to make the Rust programming language one of two main languages for the Linux kernel is getting a major boost thanks to Google and the Internet Security Research Group ...

I've found myself having do some socket programming in the linux kernel. (yes, yes, I know: have I thought about user space? Yes, that's where I've prototyped my code. This is a research project that ...

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...

The overall volume of kernel CVEs continues to climb: one security commentary noted the first 16 days of 2025 already saw 134 ...

When Docker burst onto the scene in 2013, Linux containers seemed like an overnight success. But the evolution to containers—and microservices and Kubernetes—was actually decades in the making, based ...

There's more to safer systems languages than Rust If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, there's no shortage of projects trying to build one. Ironclad stands out for ...

Google yesterday rolled out new security measures for protecting Android’s Linux kernel against malicious attacks and other threats. One set of measures is designed to provide memory level protections ...

Experience has shown that the portability, speed of development and built-in run-time support (the C Standard Library) of C far outweigh the relatively small cost of using it. As it turns out, much ...