The 2.6.36-rc3 kernel prepatch is out. "Nothing in particular stands out that I can recall. As usual, it's mostly driver updates (65%), of which a large piece (by line count) is just the removal of a staging driver that isn't really ready nor making any progress. But on the 'somewhat...

The last 12 months in Linux kernel development may have been less than exciting, but that may be just a breather before what's coming up next, according to kernel developer and Linux Weekly News editor Jon Corbet.

Thanks to heavy contributions from search giant Google, new Linux 2.6.35 kernel offers improvements in networking capabilities and performance.

Currently it looks very likely that the AppArmor security extension for the Linux kernel will soon be integrated into the official kernel sources...