News Category: Linux Kernel
Softpedia | January 30, 2017
Linus Torvalds Outs Linux Kernel 4.10 Release Candidate 6, the Biggest So Far
If last week's fifth RC was relatively normal and kept small, the Linux kernel 4.10 Release Candidate 6 snapshot appears to be much bigger because of a flood of patches that landed on Friday and this weekend. This makes today's RC release the biggest so far for the Linux 4.10 series.
As for the...
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Eric Brown | January 19, 2017 jan-lubbe-elc.png
Pengutronix kernel hacker Jan Lübbe summarized growing security threats in embedded Linux and outlined a plan to keep long-life devices secure and fully functional in this talk from Embedded Linux Conference Europe.
Long-term Embedded Linux Maintenance Made Easier
The good old days when security breaches only happened to Windows folk are fading fast. Malware hackers and denial of service specialists are increasingly targeting out of date embedded Linux devices, and fixing Linux security vulnerabilities was the topic of several presentations at the Embedded...
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The New Stack | January 18, 2017
Who Contributes to the Linux Kernel?
While many people tend to think of open source projects as being developed by passionate volunteers, the Linux kernel is mostly developed by people who are paid by their employers to contribute. According to The Linux Foundation, since 2005, “some 14,000 individual developers from over 1,300...
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Softpedia | January 16, 2017
Linus Torvalds Announces Fourth Linux 4.10 Kernel Release Candidate, Get It Now
One more week has passed in our lives, but the development of the Linux kernel never stops, and we're now seeing the release of fourth RC (Release Candidate) build of Linux kernel 4.10, which appears to be fairly normal, yet again, bringing only a collection of assorted bug fixes and improvements...
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Softpedia | January 10, 2017
Linux Kernel 4.8 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Move to Linux 4.9 Series
After informing us about the availability of the Linux 4.8.16 kernel update a few days ago, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced earlier today the availability of a new maintenance update, which appears to be the last in the stable series.
It was bound to happen sooner or later, especially now that the...
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Softpedia | January 3, 2017
Linus Torvalds Announces Ridiculously Small Second Linux 4.10 Release Candidate
The first day of 2017 starts off for Linux users with the release of the second RC (Release Candidate) development version of the upcoming Linux 4.10 kernel, as announced by Linus Torvalds himself.
As expected, Linux kernel 4.10 entered development two weeks after the release of Linux kernel 4.9,...
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Swapnil Bhartiya | December 29, 2016 chris-mason-btrfs.jpg
Learn the state of Btrfs development in this interview with principal author Chris Mason.
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How Facebook Uses Linux and Btrfs: An Interview with Chris Mason
Chris Mason is the principal author of Btrfs, the open source file system that’s seen as the default file system for SUSE Enterprise Linux. Mason started working on Btrfs at Oracle and then moved to Facebook where he continued to work on the file system as a member of the company’s Linux kernel...
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Softpedia | December 27, 2016
Linus Torvalds Announces First RC of Linux Kernel 4.10 as Christmas Present
If Santa didn't come by last night, we'd like to inform you that Linus Torvalds announced the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) build of the upcoming Linux 4.10 kernel as a Christmas present to Linux geeks around the world.
If you're watching the Linux kernel scene, you probably know...
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Jonathan Corbet | December 22, 2016
Linux Weather Forecast
Welcome to the Linux Weather Forecast
This page is an attempt to track ongoing developments in the Linux development community that have a good chance of appearing in a mainline kernel and/or major distributions sometime in the near future. Your "chief meteorologist" is Jonathan Corbet, Executive...
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OpenSource.com | December 15, 2016
9 Lessons From 25 Years of Linux Kernel Development
Because the Linux kernel community celebrated a quarter-century of development in 2016, many people have asked us the secret to the project's longevity and success. I usually laugh and joke that we really have no idea how we got here. The project has faced many disagreements and challenges along...
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