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.
more »Linux Kernel Tax-Exempt
Aug 21, 2007The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) has recognized the Linux Kernel project as a private operating foundation and exempted it from income tax.
more »Kernel Development Weather Forecast
Aug 17, 2007The Linux Foundation now offers a page with information on current and planned kernel development dubbed the "Linux Weather Forecast".
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