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Sep 07, 2009Microsoft caused a sensation with its release of its Hyper-V virtualization driver -- now its inclusion in the Linux kernel could be in doubt.
more »Con Kolivas Introduces New BFS Scheduler
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more »Linus Torvalds in Live Streaming from LinuxCon
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more »Windows Kernel: Unified Kernel Version 0.2.4.1
Sep 01, 2009The Unified Kernel, alias Longene, set itself the goal to natively support Windows programs. The newest version upgrades the Kernel version to 2.6.30.
more »Canonical Contributing Too Little to Kernel Development?
Aug 24, 2009This week the Linux Foundation published statistics of the people and companies behind the kernel development. Canonical is not mentioned at all.
more »Kernel Statistics: Who's Writing Linux?
Aug 19, 2009Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jonathan Corbet and Amanda McPherson have published the new Linux developer statistics.
more »Kernel Bug Lay Undiscovered for Eight Years
Aug 14, 2009A Linux kernel bug in network socket initialization could allow an attacker to acquire root privileges to inflict damages. The security hole applies to all kernels of the 2.4 and 2.6 series and has been around possibly since 2001.
more »Program for Eleventh Real-Time Linux Workshop
Aug 10, 2009The Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) invites participants to the Real-Time Linux Foundation Workshop from September 28 through 30 in Dresden, Germany. Well-known names such as Jonathan Corbet will be present.
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