A Gaggle of Schedulers in Kernel Development Battle
Sep 07, 2007Really Fair - Really Simple, Really Fair - Really Unfair: three schedulers are the topic of current discussions on the kernel mailing list.
more »LinuxConf Europe: Discovering Free Software in the UK Public Sector
Sep 05, 2007On Tuesday the primary conference sessions concluded with a selection of talks on how far the UK public sector has come in its adoption of Free Software. Talks by Mark Taylor (President, Open Source Consortium) and Francis Irving (MySociety) were both informative and candid in their appraisal of the UK public sector.
more »LinuxConf Europe: The Kernel King Cometh
Sep 05, 2007Since the first day of LinuxConf Europe there has been much speculation amongst delegates as to whether or not Linus Torvalds would make an appearance. This had largely been driven by the conference programme where, for the “Advanced GIT BOF”, there was no name provided for the speaker. Come Tuesday morning and a select few delegates were claiming to have spotted to the kernel's founder. As afternoon coffee approached many had begun to wonder if Linus wasn't going to arrive until the start of the developer summit following the conference.
more »Linuxconf Europe: Kernel Programming and Energy Efficiency
Sep 04, 2007Today, the Linux Conference in Cambridge focused on energy saving and kernel power management.
more »Sun Opens Chip Documentation and Appoints an Ombudsman
Aug 28, 2007Sun has publicly released developer hardware for older proprietary hardware on a Wiki site entitled "FOSS Open Hardware Documentation".
more »Tom Hanrahan: Microsoft Takes Open Source Seriously
Aug 28, 2007Collaboration with Novell on virtualization and Web service management, and quality of interaction between Windows and Samba are the next topics that Microsoft's Linux developer, Tom Hanrahan, will be focusing on.
more »Microtransat 2007: Linux on the High Seas
Aug 24, 2007A regatta for unmanned robot sailing craft will be starting from Aberystwyth, Wales, in September. "Roboat", a Linux-powered craft by the Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Sciences (InnoC), will be one of the starters in Microtransat 2007.
more »Linus Torvalds: No Kernel 3.0
Aug 23, 2007Linux inventor Linus Torvalds says there's no need for Kernel 3.0.
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