KVM API Revamp; Load Balancing Improvements; Scheduler Testability
Zack’s Kernel News
Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
Avi Kivity felt that the KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) programmer interface was getting gradually out of control, and needed to be reined in. He really wanted to ditch the old API entirely and start fresh with a new, wellthought-out interface that did not have the years of cruft and creep clinging to it that the current KVM did. But, because he felt that a total revamp might be too wrenching for users, he just posted some of his thoughts about where such a thing might lead, if it were ever done.
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Knoppix 8.6 Released
The latest version of the classic Live Linux comes with KDE Plasma 5.
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openSUSE Board Gets a New Chairman
Richard Brown is replaced by Gerald Pfeifer.
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Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Released
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Gnome and KDE Coming Together
The two major Linux projects will work together to create a compatible ecosystem.
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Fedora CoreOS Preview Released
The new distribution from Red Hat is targeted at containerized workloads.
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SUSE Appoints New CEO
Melissa Di Donato replaces Nils Brauckmann, who will retire and leave SUSE.
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Debian Buster Arrives
The latest release of Debian comes with tightened security.
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IBM Acquires Red Hat
Red Hat becomes an independent entity within IBM.
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Raspberry Pi 4 Is Here
A new operating system has been released to support the new device.
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Ubuntu Takes A U-Turn with 32-Bit Support
Canonical will continue to support legacy applications and libraries.