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Android Drivers to be Included in Linux 3.3 Kernel

Saturday, 24 December 2011 00:00 The H

Kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has included a number of Android drivers in his development branch for the 3.3 Linux kernel. This will allow developers to boot the 3.3 Linux kernel on an Android device without requiring patches...

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GParted Live Update Supports Btrfs Resizing

Friday, 04 November 2011 06:11 The H

The new release of the Live Linux distribution updates its underlying OS and includes an new version of the GNOME Partition Editor; this adds support for resizing partitions that use the Btrfs file system...

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Trying Out dtrace, by Wim Coekaerts

Monday, 10 October 2011 09:41 Wim Coekaerts

One of the things we talked about at Oracle Openworld, last week, was Dtrace for Oracle Linux. There's not been much information on it yet so I wanted to write up what you need to do to give it a go.

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Feedback Requested: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Released

Tuesday, 06 September 2011 18:50 Jeff Licquia

Just before LinuxCon North America in Vancouver, The Linux Foundation released a draft proposal for an update to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)...

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Linux Mainline Contains All the Xen Code Bits for Dom0 and DomU Support

Friday, 27 May 2011 07:51 Wim Coekaerts

After a relatively long road traveled with a few bumps along the way, as of yesterday, Linus's mainline tree (2.6.39+) contains literally every component needed for Linux to run both as a management domain kernel(Dom0) and a guest(DomU)...

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