Local Vulnerabilities in Current Kernels
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more »Opensuse 11: Alpha 2 with KDE 4
Feb 12, 2008The biggest change to the second alpha version of Opensuse 11 has to be the inclusion of KDE 4, which now replaces the older KDE version 3.5.8.
more »Linus Torvalds: Kernel 2.6.25-rc1 "Bloody Large"
Feb 11, 2008Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate of the new 2.6.25 kernel, codenamed "Bloody Large".
more »Linux 2.6.25 without Closed Source USB Drivers
Feb 05, 2008A controversial patch for the imminent kernel 2.6.25 is causing much debate in the developer community: in a similar move to one he made two years ago, the well-known kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted a patch that prevents closed source USB drivers from using the kernel's USB driver API.
more »Completely Fair Scheduler Analyzed
Jan 17, 2008Avinesh 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.
more »Damn Small Linux 4.2 Polishes its Visuals
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more »Ted Ts'o Joins Linux Foundation
Dec 05, 2007US kernel developer Theodore Ts'o will be joining the Linux Foundation for the next two years as Chief Platform Strategist.
more »Security Bugs in Kernel and Rsync
Nov 30, 2007Security researchers at Secunia have reported two security bugs in the Rsync synchronization tool and one in the current Linux kernel.
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