News Category: Linux Kernel
Beta News | April 16, 2018
Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless'
Following the release of Linux kernel 4.16, Linus Torvalds has said that the next kernel will be version 5.0. Or maybe it won't, because version numbers are meaningless.
The announcement -- of sorts -- came in Torvalds' message over the weekend about the first release candidate for version 4.17. He...
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OpenSource.com | April 13, 2018
Submitting my First Patch to the Linux Kernel
I started using Linux three years ago while attending university, and I was fascinated to discover a different desktop environment. My professor introduced me to the Ubuntu operating system, and I decided to dual-boot it along with Windows on my laptop the same day.
Within three months, I had...
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OpenSource.com | April 9, 2018
Understanding Linux filesystems: ext4 and Beyond
The majority of modern Linux distributions default to the ext4 filesystem, just as previous Linux distributions defaulted to ext3, ext2, and—if you go back far enough—ext.
If you're new to Linux—or to filesystems—you might wonder what ext4 brings to the table that ext3 didn't. You might also wonder...
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Amber Ankerholz | April 5, 2018 linux-kernel-dev-copy.png
Steven Rostedt maintains the Real Time Stable releases of the Linux kernel.
Linux Kernel Developer: Steven Rostedt
Linus Torvalds recently released version 4.16 of the Linux kernel. These releases typically occur every nine to ten weeks, and each one contains the work of more than 1,600 developers representing over 200 corporations, according to the 2017 Linux Kernel Development Report, written by Jonathan...
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Beta News | March 26, 2018
Linus Torvalds: Linux 4.16 Kernel Launches on Sunday. Possibly. Maybe.
After a series of release candidates, Linus Torvalds could well be ready to unleash version 4.16 of the Linux kernel onto the world at the weekend. That is unless he changes his mind about the RC build: "rc7 is much too big for my taste," he says in his weekly update to the kernel mailing list....
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Jonathan Corbet | February 16, 2018
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Linux "chief meteorologist" Jonathan Corbet shares the current conditions for Linux kernel development.
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Linux Weather Forecast
Welcome to the Linux Weather Forecast
This page is an attempt to track ongoing developments in the Linux development community that have a good chance of appearing in a mainline kernel and/or major distributions sometime in the near future. Your "chief meteorologist" is Jonathan Corbet, Executive...
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Brendan Gregg's Blog | February 12, 2018
KPTI/KAISER Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
The recently revealed Meltdown and Spectre bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Many thanks to the engineers working hard to develop workarounds to these...
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The Linux Foundation | January 26, 2018
System Startup Gets a Boost with New LinuxBoot Project
The Linux Foundation is pleased to welcome LinuxBoot to our family of open source projects and to support the growth of the project community. LinuxBoot looks to improve system boot performance and reliability by replacing some firmware functionality with a Linux kernel and runtime...
LinuxBoot...
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ZDNet | January 25, 2018
Linux and Intel Slowly Hack Their Way to a Spectre Patch
Spectre and Meltdown are major design flaws in modern CPUs. While they're present in almost all recent processors, because Intel chips are so widely used, Intel is taking most of the heat for these bugs. Nowhere has the criticism been hotter than on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). That's...
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The Linux Foundation | January 23, 2018
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To find and report bugs, Linux kernel developers depend on a wide community of testers.
Linux Kernel Developer: Julia Lawall
A kernel that has had nearly 83,000 patches applied will certainly have a few bugs introduced along with the new features, states the 2017 Linux Kernel Development Report, written by Jonathan Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman.
To find and report those bugs, Linux kernel developers depend on a wide...
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