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The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...

The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...

Leading tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, Netflix, and NASA use Linux kernels extensively in infrastructure, cloud, mobile (Android), streaming, and research. Knowing how these ...

The Linux Kernel is written in C programming language, so C is the most important language for the Linux Kernel developer. Initially, the kernel was written in GNU C (now it is also possible to build ...

Nearly 2,000 developers started contributing to Linux in the past 15 months, making up nearly half of all developers writing code for the open source operating system kernel. The new developers are ...

Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Here’s an irony for you: the Linux kernel is now written, ...

The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report ...