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Linux Kernel Gets A Wait-Free Concurrent Queue

Thursday, 14 March 2013 06:09 Phoronix

Introduced to the world on Monday and already revised today is the Linux Kernel Wait-Free Concurrent Queue Implementation...

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UEFI and Secure Boot In Depth

Wednesday, 13 March 2013 10:00 ZDNet

Q&A: My questions on UEFI and secure boot, answered by Mark Doran, the president of the UEFI Forum.

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Kernel Progress On Improving I/O Wait, Interactivity

Monday, 04 March 2013 07:43 Phoronix

Progress is being made within the Linux kernel for reducing the I/O wait times and system interactivity/responsiveness when dealing with large I/O operations...

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Feature Set of Linux 3.9 Has Been Established

Monday, 04 March 2013 05:06 The H

RAID 5 and 6 in Btrfs and a Device Mapper target for using SSDs as hard disk cache will be two of the major new features of Linux 3.9. New Stable and Longterm kernels offer bug fixes, and kernel.org has been given a facelift...

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Stable Kernels 3.8.1, 3.4.34, and 3.0.67

Thursday, 28 February 2013 08:55 LWN

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 3.8.1, 3.4.34, and 3.0.67 stable kernels. 3.8.1 and 3.4.34 contain the fix for the recent local privilege escalation, CVE-2013-1763 (3.0.x is not affected). As usual, there are also fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade.