Samsung has just released its Galaxy Note II kernel for developers to work on custom ROMs for the device. This opens up new possibilities for users wanting a better Galaxy Note II experience. More...

Samsung and HTC has officially released the Android 4.0 kernels for the Galaxy S II and various other HTC devices. This will result in better development from within the Android community. More...

The newest Linux release happily marries with the Android code developed by Google and the mobile OS community. Disagreement of the past shall not obfuscate the common future of the two projects. More...

Microsoft builds upon the memory savings offered by Windows 7 with further penny-pitching techniques in Windows 8, as today's "Building Windows 8" blog post explains. More...

The site hosting the Linux kernel was reportedly hacked last week, though admins have reassured users the kernel itself remains absolutely safe. More...

Researchers in Australia have determined a way to prove that the kernels in mission-critical systems are safe, through the magic of mathematics. This method, which is being reported by CNET, is said to prove that... More...

One of the "big" features discussed in early speculation of Windows Vista SP1 was the kernel upgrade, which was supposed to bring the operating system into line with the Longhorn kernel used in Windows Server... More...

What was not supposed to happen in Windows Vista apparently has: Despite a layer of protection that was supposed to prevent against processes elevating their own privileges, Microsoft now says someone found a way to... More...

According to security researchers, the Linux kernel is prone to a local vulnerability that may result in a DoS or privilege escalation, possibly allowing the attackers to run arbitrary code on the target system. This... More...

Tuesday's update to Windows Vista's PatchGuard, a kernel protection scheme designed to keep malicious or unproven code at arm's length, had nothing to do with recent hacks of another Vista defense, Microsoft said Thursday. The... More...

An unpatched flaw in drivers from ATI creates a security hole to sneak malware past the improved security features in Windows Vista and straight to the Vista Kernel. Microsoft says that they are working with... More...

Making separate but critical points about the path of the Linux kernel, the maintainer of the kernel on Monday stressed there is no need to worry about forking and not to expect a move to... More...

Metasploit founder HD Moore has released an exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Apple Airport driver that ships with some PowerBook and iMac computers. The exploit kicks off a new project called Month of... More...

The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. Linux creator Linus Torvalds said... More...

Microsoft will move the graphics for its next version of Windows outside of the operating system's kernel to improve reliability, the software giant has told Techworld. Vista's graphics subsystem, codenamed Avalon and formally known as... More...

Members of the open-source community are expressing concern over rapid feature changes in the Linux 2.6 kernel, which they say are too focused on the desktop and could make the kernel too large. Sam Greenblatt,... More...

A stable and mature Linux kernel is enabling its chief developers to shift away from the common kernel development model to one that will result in more frequent releases. Up to now, once a production... More...

The next release of the Linux kernel will be named after an Australian animal following a frenzied bidding war at Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide. As part of the Penguin Dinner held for attendees... More...

The Debian Project warned on Monday that a flaw in the Linux kernel helped attackers compromise four of the open-source software project's development servers. During several intrusions Nov. 19, the flaw enabled an attacker who... More...

Consortium aims to raise awareness of development processes behind the Penguin The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) is looking to raise awareness about the processes behind the Linux kernel's development. ... More...

An unknown intruder attempted to insert a Trojan horse program into the code of the next version of the Linux kernel, stored at a publicly accessible database. Security features of the source-code repository, known as... More...

An updated version of the heart of Linux is expected soon, but it could be more than a year before the operating system's top seller includes it in its corporate product. Red Hat's newest product... More...

Thanks A-KO for this.....A kernel rollup hotfix package is available for Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). The kernel rollup hotfix package replaces the hotfixes that are listed below: ... More...

There is a flaw in the way the kernel passes error messages to a debugger. A vulnerability results because an attacker could write a program to exploit this flaw and run code of their choice.... More...

AMD SAID THERE IS A LINUX KERNEL BUG related to cache attribute conflicts in newer versions of the Athlon XP and Athlon MP and has appealed to the Linux Community to help it solve the... More...

Thanks XpXpert for this - seems your not only an expert in xp.... XpXpert pointed something out to me : if we look at previous releases of windows -say xp and 2k we... More...