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Linus on Linux: The Linus Torvalds Interview Part 2

Sunday, 26 April 2009 13:54 Linux Magazine

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In part 2 of our interview, Linus talks about the process of managing kernel developer commits, selecting a revision control system and how he personally uses git.

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Linus on Linux: The Linus Torvalds Interview Part 1

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 07:51 Linux Magazine

Article Source Linux Magazine
April 22, 2009, 3:51 pm

Linus reflects on 18 years of working on Linux, the developer ecosystem and his goal for Linux on the desktop.

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Kernel prepatch 2.6.30-rc3

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 22:09 LWN

Article Source LWN
April 22, 2009, 6:09 am

Linus has released the third 2.6.30 prepatch. "The diffstat really shows lots of small one-liners and two-liners, although there are areas that are getting bigger patches (ignoring the bulky but uninteresting arm defconfig updates): some x86 up...

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Linux Don't Need No Stinkin' ZFS: BTRFS Intro & Benchmarks

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:11 Linux Magazine

Article Source Linux Magazine
April 21, 2009, 9:11 pm

ZFS may be locked into the Solaris operating system but "Butter FS" is on the horizon and it's boasting more features and better performance.

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Kernel prepatch 2.6.30-rc2

Tuesday, 14 April 2009 10:59 LWN

Article Source LWN
April 14, 2009, 6:59 pm

Linus has released the 2.6.30-rc2 prepatch. "New 'microblaze' architecture, a somewhat late 'input' layer merge, a new intel virtual networking driver and some firmware loading updates. And mn10300 and frv moved their header files from include/asm...

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