When Rust was first proposed as a language for the Linux kernel, many of us were skeptical. C has been the backbone of the ...
A slow change is coming to the Linux kernel, and it’s as fundamental as it gets for programmers: the very language they write in. Such an impactful move has to be handled carefully, but it’s cause for ...
Rust will save Linux from C's inherent security weaknesses. Linux, faced with a flood of AI-discovered security problems, could use the help. Going forward, more and more Linux code will be written in ...
When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ...
The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not ...
After years of hinting, Nvidia announced yesterday that it would be open-sourcing part of its Linux GPU driver, as both Intel and AMD have done for years now. Previously, Linux users who wanted to ...
The Panfrost and PanVK open-source driver stack for ARM Mali GPUs crossed a significant threshold on June 3, 2026, when a Rust-written shader compiler landed in Mesa's development tree for the first ...