Microsoft Plays out its Patents in Suing TomTom
Feb 26, 2009Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against TomTom. The navigation systems vendor is allegedly violating eight Microsoft patents, three involving Linux.
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Jan 31, 2009Live from Down Under: Report from Linux.conf.au 2009
Jan 21, 2009For FOSS fans, there's no better place to be this week than Hobart, state capitol of the Australian state Tasmania. That's where Linux.conf.au 2009 is being held through Saturday, January 24.
more »Greg KH Self-Professed Email Junkie
Jan 19, 2009Novell kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has released statistics on his personal email activity.
more »Polyakov's OOM Killer Tamer
Jan 19, 2009Evgeniy Polyakov has released a patch to the kernel's out-of-memory (OOM) killer function, which was designed to prevent a system freeze in an OOM condition by sacrificing one or more processes. The patch "tames" the function by defining the specific process to kill.
more »Ubuntu 9.04 Supports Ext4
Jan 13, 2009Since its addition to Kernel 2.6.28, the ext4 filesystem can be manually installed in the upcoming Ubuntu release.
more »Kernel 2.6.29: Corbet Says Btrfs Next Generation Filesystem
Jan 12, 2009Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet has just previewed the features of the upcoming Linux Kernel 2.6.29 that includes Btrfs, which he claims is the filesystem of the future.
more »Appeal for BtrFS Inclusion in Kernel
Jan 06, 2009Chris Mason, lead developer of the copy-on-write BtrFS filesystem, has appealed for its inclusion in the Linux kernel.
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New Linux Flaw Lets Attackers Escape VMs
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