Software Heritage, the universal source code archive, was announced to the public in the spring of 2016. Since then, our development has been running in the open, using all Free Software; we have a preview API available to the public, and Inria, our umbrella...
Wanting to avoid the Android experience, Google developers always aimed to make their Chrome OS Linux kernels as close to mainline as possible. However, when Chromebooks were first created, Google was left with no choice, the mainline kernel, in some subsystems, still...
The recent hardware security vulnerabilites exposed the kernel community to unprecedented restrictions and bureaucrazy. Pure software bugs which only affect the Linux kernel are a completely different category and the kernel community has established and well working...
Linux is likely the most important software project ever undertaken; it is essential to the future of freedom for users and developers alike. Many in our community believe that Linux’s continued success and certainty of collaborative shared development depends on its...