News Category: Linux Kernel
ComputerWorld | September 10, 2009
Linux Driver Chief Calls Out Microsoft Over Its Driver Code Submission
Article Source ComputerWorldSeptember 10, 2009, 3:05 pm
After a kick in the pants from the leader of the Linux driver project, Microsoft has resumed work on its historic driver code submission to the Linux kernel and avoided having the code pulled from the open-source operating system....
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Linus Torvalds | September 9, 2009
Linux 2.6.31 Released
Ok, there's just a few final commits since -rc9 to fix a couple of last regressions and problems, and now the final 2.6.31 is out there. The small diffstat and shortlog is below, the full log and diff from 2.6.30 are being uploaded to kernel.org (and then mirrored out) as I write this. In general...
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The H | September 9, 2009
Kernel Log – Extra Round for 2.6.31, X.org 7.5 on the Horizon, Staging Area to be Cleaned Up
Article Source The HSeptember 8, 2009, 2:06 am
Linus Torvalds will release 2.6.31 a few days later than previously announced and has scheduled another release candidate, RC9. After some delay, the development of X.org 7.5 is now going ahead at full steam, and the developers plan to have the...
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Linux Magazine | September 9, 2009
Metadata Performance Exploration Part 2: XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, ext2, and resier4
Article Source Linux MagazineSeptember 8, 2009, 9:22 pm
Last week we tested four Linux file systems — ext3, ext4, nilfs2, and btrfs — for metadata performance using a benchmark called fdtree. The point of the benchmarks was not really to comparison the performance of the file systems per...
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Phoronix | September 8, 2009
Linux 2.6.32 To Get R600 KMS Along With 3D
Article Source PhoronixSeptember 8, 2009, 7:08 am
David Airlie has pushed a horde of new code into his drm-next Git tree, which is what will get pulled into the Linux 2.6.32 kernel once the merge window is open. Most prominently, this new DRM code brings support for kernel mode-setting with...
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LinuxJournal | September 4, 2009
Linus Is A Fake!
Article Source Linux JournalSeptember 4, 2009, 12:26 pm
Every true Linux geek knows that Linus Torvalds is our fearless leader, the developer-in-chief, keeper of the stable tree and decider of what will be. But according to the Linux Foundation, what you see may not be what you get.
In a post...
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Linux Magazine | September 2, 2009
Metadata Performance of Four Linux File Systems
Article Source Linux MagazineSeptember 2, 2009, 6:23 am
In a previous article, the case was made for how low file system benchmarks have fallen. Benchmarks have become the tool of marketing to the point where they are mere numbers and do not prove of much use. The article reviewed a paper that...
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LWN | September 1, 2009
Con Kolivas Returns with a New Scheduler
Article Source LWNSeptember 1, 2009, 8:31 am
Con Kolivas, who worked on desktop interactivity issues in the past before storming off in 2007, has posted a new scheduler called BFS. "It was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive...
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Phoronix | August 31, 2009
ALSA 1.0.21 Released With Many Driver Updates
Article Source PhoronixAugust 31, 2009, 8:04 am
With it being a few months since the release of ALSA 1.0.20, it's now time for the ALSA 1.0.21 update. The ALSA driver package update (finally) brings the Creative X-Fi Linux driver officially along with a horde of updates to the other drivers...
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internetnews.com | August 20, 2009
Linux Kernel Development Speeds Up
Article Source internetnews.com
The pace of development, measured in terms of patches accepted every hour, was 42 percent faster than it had been in the first Who Writes Linux report. Between the 2.6.24 and the 2.6.30 releases, there were 5.45 patches accepted every hour, for an average of 10,923...
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