But change could be coming. There's growing momentum behind an effort to make programming language Rust a second language to C for the Linux kernel. Google is backing a project led by developer ...

The latest Linux kernel is out with a slew of new features -- and, for once, this release has been nice and easy. As Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): "It ...

Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel ... a viable long-term strategy.

On Wednesday, Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he had patched his operating system kernel to fix a bug that had been preventing the virus from running. The virus, called Virus.Linux.Bi.a ...