October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
19h 57m
English
book
Security Strategies in Linux Platforms and Applications, 3rd Edition
by Ric Messier, Michael Jang
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The Stock Kernel
The stock kernel is the generic kernel released by the developers of the Linux Kernel Organization at http://kernel.org/. The leader of that organization is Linus Torvalds, who developed the first kernel in 1991. A Linux kernel version was released late that year. In 1992, Torvalds adapted the GNU General Public License (GPL) for all Linux kernel releases. Torvalds is still the lead developer of the Linux kernel, coordinating the efforts of thousands of other developers.
The stock kernel is sometimes known as the mainline or vanilla kernel. Many Linux kernel developers work on releases that may be stable or unstable. The current maintainers of the stable release tree are Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. Other key developers ...