Blogger Accuses Asus of Infringing GPL with Eee PC
Nov 26, 2007Cliff Biffle, a US blogger, accuses Asus of infringements against the GPL with the software on ist Eee PC.
more »Kernel: New Maintainer for x86 Branch
Oct 25, 2007Back at the Kernel Summit in September Andi Kleen announced that he would no longer be maintaining the i386 and x86_64 branches if they were merged in the new x86 branch. A new patch shows that Kleen has kept his promise.
more »More Powerful than Ever: Kernel 2.6.23 Released
Oct 10, 2007With numerous new drivers and functions and a whole bunch of improvements Linus Torvalds released the new 2.6.23 version of the Linux kernel in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
more »Torvalds: Investigating ACPI Problems
Sep 25, 2007In a post on the Linux Kernel mailing list, Thomas Gleixner claims to have fixed ACPI suspend and resume problems. Linus Torvalds praised him for doing so, but also has his doubts.
more »DKMS: Dell Improves Driver Installation
Sep 24, 2007Version 2.0.17.4 DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support), a framework that facilitates the installation of Linux drivers, has just been released. Besides bugfixes the new release includes a method for creating Debian driver packages.
more »Faster and Leaner: Linux-tiny
Sep 21, 2007The smallest kernel, put together thanks to a collection of patches by the Linux-tiny project, weighs in at just 197KB. After two years of inactivity, maintainers Michael Opdenacker and other developers are looking to breath new life into the project.
more »A Gaggle of Schedulers in Kernel Development Battle
Sep 07, 2007Really Fair - Really Simple, Really Fair - Really Unfair: three schedulers are the topic of current discussions on the kernel mailing list.
more »Idea for a New Filesystem
Aug 23, 2007Programmer Marc Perkel gave kernel developers something to think about with his proposal for a new filesystem.
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