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• Kernel space: ELF prediction to speed application startup 1 month, 1 week ago
  
  "When the kernel executes a program, it must retrieve the code from disk, which it normally does by demand paging it in as required by the execution path..."
• Looking ahead to Linux Kernel Summit 2007 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "For the past several years, the annual, invitation-only kernel developers' summit has been held immediately prior to the Ottawa Linux Symposium. This year is different, though; the summit is instead happening just after LinuxConf Europe in Cambridge, England.... "
• Xen Merged Into Linux Kernel 10 months ago
  
  The Xen virtual machine monitor was recently merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 Linux kernel in a series of patches from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. The project was originally started as a research project at the University of Cambridge, and has been repeatedly discussed as a merge candidate for the mainline Linux kernel.
• Reducing Power Consumption 10 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "With all the tickless and other goodies going into the kernel in the last few months, there is a lot of hope that this helps Linux reduce power consumption," Arjan van de Ven began on the lkml, "and the good news is that it does... once you fix some bugs and fix a bunch of userspace applications." He referred to a promising graph generated utilizing the recently introduced PowerTOP utility, measuring power consumption before and after applying a series of related bug fixes.
• Linux Contributor Base Broadens 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate 70% of the coding..."
• Tuning the Linux Kernel for Better Network Throughput 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "The Linux kernel and the distributions that package it typically provide very conservative defaults to certain network settings that affect networking parameters..."
• Where is the Linux kernel going? 11 months ago
  
  Last week, at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit held at the Googleplex, some of Linux's top kernel developers discussed the state of the Linux kernel today, and where it might be going.
• Linux: Linus on the GPL, BSD, Tivo and the FSF 11 months ago
  
  A lengthy debate that began with a suggestion to dual license the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 and the GPLv3 [story] continues on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Throughout the ongoing thread Linux creator Linus Torvalds has spoken out on the GPLv2, the upcoming GPLv3, the BSD license, Tivo, the Free Software Foundation, and much more. During the discussion, he was asked we he chose the GPLv2 over the BSD license when he's obviously not a big fan of the FSF.