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EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Stable Linux Kernels

Wednesday, 24 October 2012 02:06 Phoronix

As a warning for those who are normally quick to upgrade to the latest stable vanilla kernel releases, a serious EXT4 data corruption bug worked its way into the stable Linux 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 kernel series...

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Signed Kernel Modules Support For Linux 3.7

Tuesday, 16 October 2012 01:22 Phoronix

One of the last merge requests that Linus Torvalds honored this past weekend prior to releasing Linux 3.7-rc1 as the modules pull, which added in module signing support for the Linux kernel.

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Linux Developers Still Reject NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF

Thursday, 11 October 2012 02:52 Phoronix

Going back to the beginning of this year there's been talk of NVIDIA looking at Optimus support for Linux and in August they confirmed they were working on NVIDIA Optimus Linux support. As part of their Optimus Linux implementation they want to use DMA-BUF for the multi-GPU interactions just like...

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Btrfs Gets New Features In Linux 3.7

Wednesday, 10 October 2012 01:10 Phoronix

Chris Mason sent in a large Btrfs file-system pull request for the Linux 3.7 kernel...

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Linux Now Has Audio Run-Time Power Management

Monday, 08 October 2012 05:41 Phoronix

The sound pull request for the Linux 3.7 kernel was finally sent in today and it provides a few new features for the Linux kernel audio drivers, including run-time power savings support...

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