Torvalds: I want to be the best
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more »Graphics Chipsets: Intel Releases Documentation
Feb 04, 2008Chip giant Intel has released comprehensive documentation on its 965 Express and G35 Express chipsets.
more »Etch and a Half
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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 »Paul Frields Takes Over at Fedora
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more »Trolltech Makes KDE Developer its Vice President of Engineering
Dec 14, 2007Lars Knoll is to become part of the Trolltech management team. As Vice President of Engineering, he will lead the developer teams in Norway, Germany and Australia.
more »Miquel de Icaza: Moonlight Making Progress
Dec 06, 2007Mono developer and Novell employee Miquel de Icaza reported on the progress being made by Moonlight at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston. Moonlight is the Linux variant of Microsoft’s Silverlight solution.
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.
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