What's happening in the kernel community

Zack's Kernel News

Article from Issue 125/2011
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Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

After many painful years, Arnd Bergmann posted the patch that many kernel developers have been waiting for: the final removal of the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)...

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