The majority of the time that Linux gets dragged in the spotlight is when there are high-profile security bugs that remind people how Linux practically runs the world behind the scenes. This time, ...

One government agency recently embarked on a mission to provide both high availability and disaster recovery (DR) for their Microsoft Exchange 2003 server. More of this week’s Linux news IBM, Red Hat ...

Organizations running large fleets of production Linux computers are being urged to apply new patches to stop remote attackers from crashing the machines. Three flaws affect how the Linux kernel ...

Researchers at Netflix have discovered new denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in Linux and FreeBSD kernels, including a severe vulnerability called SACK Panic that could allow malicious actors to ...

Linux is a robust and stable operating system kernel, but there are instances where it can panic, be it due to bad hardware or bad software. It does not happen often, but it can happen. If you’re ...

I am having a issue with a kernel panic happening once every few days on one of my desktops. It runs Linux Mint 17, and the panics seem to involve the same set of functions in the call trace. I can't ...

The Linux operating system recently learned to output information via QR codes in case of a hopeless error. The Linux kernel will have a similar function. According ...

Want to do something with those crash dump files other than remove them? Want to extract some useful information without a lot of work? Take a look at Sun’s free crash analysis tool, scat. While “scat ...

To illustrate some of the many commands available with scat, I’m going to start up scat in its shorthand fashion — by providing the core dump “generation” as the only argument to the scat command. # ...