Kernel Developers Petition Against Closed Source Drivers
Jun 24, 2008Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has invited other kernel developers to sign a petition against closed source kernel modules.
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May 31, 2008Two Embedded Maintainers for the Linux Kernel
May 29, 2008Kernel 2.6 maintainer Andrew Morton's wish has come true now that he has found not just one, but two new embedded maintainers, Paul Gortmaker and David Woodhouse.
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May 19, 2008Three simple photos are causing a stir right now: they show kernel inventor Linus Torvalds talking to the ZFS inventor Jeff Bonwick and thus fire rumors about the filesystem being added to the Linux kernel.
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Apr 30, 2008Embedded Maintainer for Linux Kernel Wanted
Apr 22, 2008Andrew Morton, the Linux Kernel 2.6 maintainer announced last week at the Embedded Linux Conference in Mountain View that he is looking for an architecture-independent embedded specialist.
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2,000 Vulnerabilities per Linux Release
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Linux Exempt from California’s Age Verification Law
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Roll Out the Cake: Linux Turns 35
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China Switching from Windows to Linux
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Pine64 Halts Production of Linux Devices
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The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative Is Coming
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Linux Mint Shares a Possible Kernel Cleanup Solution
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CachyOS Gets an Update
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