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XFS File-System Gets Fixed Up In Linux 3.8 Kernel

Wednesday, 12 December 2012 07:31 Phoronix

The Linux 3.8 kernel will bring a number of bug-fixes for the XFS file-system...

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Fedora 18 Will Stick To Using Tmpfs

Thursday, 06 December 2012 07:02 Phoronix

It was decided at today's FESCo meeting to not disable the mounting of /tmp as a tmpfs file-system by default for the forthcoming Fedora 18 Linux release...

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Open-Source GPU Drivers Improved For Linux 3.8

Wednesday, 21 November 2012 01:11 Phoronix

Various improvements to the major open-source Linux graphics drivers will be landing with the Linux 3.8 kernel in the months ahead...

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Gentoo Developers Start udev Fork

Monday, 19 November 2012 02:46 The H

The developers of the eudev fork of udev plan to support the separate mounting of /usr/, which isn't possible with udev; udev inventor Greg Kroah-Hartman has criticised the approach...

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Stable Kernels 3.0.51, 3.4.18, and 3.6.6 Released

Monday, 05 November 2012 07:58 LWN

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 3.0.51 (diffs), 3.4.18 (diffs), and 3.6.6 (diffs) stable kernels. They contain fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade. The latter two (3.4.18, 3.6.6) contain the fix for the ext4 corruption problem that initially looked much worse than it turned out to...

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