Kernel News and Articles

Linux Kernel Project Becomes CVE Numbering Authority

22.02.2024

A lot of CVE numbers are going to be assigned to the kernel.

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Linux 6.6 Named Long-Term Support Kernel

28.11.2023

The 6.6 kernel will be supported until December 2026.

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Civil Infrastructure Platform Adds New Super-Long-Term Linux Kernel

23.10.2023

The 6.1-cip kernel will be maintained for a minimum of 10 years.

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Dent Network Operating System Targets Edge Deployments

22.05.2023

Version 3.0 of Dent was released in April with significant improvements.

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Run applications in a containerized sandbox with Firejail

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Isolate popular applications in flexible, easy-to-set-up, and easy-to-take-down containers with Firejail.
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Security boundaries in Windows

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We look at Microsoft security boundaries and protection goals and their interpretation of the different security areas of Windows operating systems and components.
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Reducing your attack surface

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Windows Defender Application Control protects systems against threats that traditional virus scanners and signature-based mechanisms cannot detect by restricting applications in the user context and reducing the code allowed in the system kernel.
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Link aggregation with kernel bonding and the Team daemon

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The Linux world has different implementations for integrating multiple network cards: kernel old-timer ifenslave and the younger libteam.
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Figure 1: Dependencies for kdump/kexec must be met both on the kernel side and in userland.

Creating and Evaluating Kernel Crash Dumps

If the Linux server crashes, not only do you need to restore operations, you also need to analyze the problem. A kernel crash dump at the time of the crash can be a big help.

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Figure 1: Fedora includes the Aeolus web-based cloud management tool.

Test Lab: Fedora 16

Fedora 16 comes with some desktop improvements, but for admins, the real story is about virtualization.

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