Programming News and Articles

Recent kernel versions back to the older kernel 2.6.17 may contain a vulnerability that can be exploited by local attackers.

Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate of the new 2.6.25 kernel, codenamed "Bloody Large".

Avinesh Kumar, an IBM developer has taken a close look at the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) introduced with kernel 2.6.23, comparing it with other schedulers. In the conclusion to the analysis, Kumar discusses changes in the future kernel 2.6.24 scheduler.

Version 3.0.0 of HTML Purifier, a PHP library for purifying HTML has just been released with numerous new features.

US kernel developer Theodore Ts'o will be joining the Linux Foundation for the next two years as Chief Platform Strategist.

Version 6.0 of Netbeans, an IDE sponsored by Sun has just been released.

Security researchers at Secunia have reported two security bugs in the Rsync synchronization tool and one in the current Linux kernel.

According to a recent online survey, about half of all embedded system developers choose the Linux operating system.