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The Virtual Processor Interface: Linux Kernel Support for User-Level Thread Systems
White Papers Despite an increasing need for thread support in language run-time systems and parallel libraries such as in Java and OpenMP, there is limited support for custom, multiprocessor capable, user-level thread systems in the Linux kernel.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Linux kernel developer's guide published
News Some developers and businesses attempting to submit changes to the Linux kernel find themselves tangled up with the processes used, according to the guide, which was written by Jonathan Corbet, executive editor of lwn.net and himself a Linux...
[August 15, 2008, 15:43]
Linux kernel to include IPv6 firewall
News Version 2.6.12 of the Linux kernel is likely to include packet filtering that will work with IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol. Netfilter/iptables, the firewall engine that is part of the Linux kernel, already allows stateless...
[February 21, 2005, 14:10]
Linux kernel 2.6 heads for final testing
News Linux creator Linus Torvalds has released a fresh test version of the long-delayed 2.6 operating system kernel, which is expected to be the last test release before the software is finalised. Please don't even bother sending me patches, because I...
[November 27, 2003, 12:45]
Linux kernel flaw allows DoS attack
News Linux distributor Novell SuSE released a security advisory with a severity rating of nine out of 10 last week warning of a flaw in Linux kernel 2.6. Roman Drahtmueller, head of Linux security at SuSE Linux, said this version of the kernel is...
[October 25, 2004, 17:40]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback VMS is nothing like Unix the kernel architecture between Linux and NT are so different that they literally, like apples and oranges, cannot be compared on a technical basis Linux and Minix have no technical overlap at all he clearly has no...
[July 2, 2004, 1:14]
Linux kernel gains serviceability features
News The Linux kernel has been updated with several serviceability improvements, chiefly around the kdump and SystemTap features. Kdump is especially significant since it represents the first crash dump tool accepted into the mainline kernel.
[December 15, 2006, 8:45]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback The Linux kernel is far superior to the NT kernel. For one thing, it is a real muli-user kernel. The Windows NT kernel is severly lacking in security modularization. While the NT kernel is in fact a microkernel, its inherent implementation is very...
[July 2, 2004, 17:28]
Linux kernel 'getting buggier'
News Andrew Morton, the lead maintainer of the Linux production kernel, is worried that an increasing number of defects are appearing in the 2.6 kernel and is considering drastic action to resolve it. I believe the 2.6 kernel is slowly getting buggier.
[May 5, 2006, 16:35]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback He is comparing the full Linux distro, with Linux kernel, with Windows. But.Linux Is jut a kernel.well.don't mind. But ultimately, said Russinovich, the gap between the two operating systems will continue to narrow to a point where their underlying...
[July 2, 2004, 6:03]
Linux kernel rewrite claims denied
News Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which promotes the adoption of the Linux operating system, has denied that it plans to rewrite the Linux kernel to combat claims that it infringes some software patents.
[January 18, 2005, 12:25]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
News At Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday, a session was devoted to how, according to one Microsoft fan at least, the Linux kernel is beginning to resemble, well -- Windows. Russinovich's presentation, which he claimed to have run...
[July 1, 2004, 15:05]
Linux kernel upgrade fixes security flaws
News Open-source developers released a new version of the Linux kernel on Monday in a move aimed at quickly fixing several bugs -- among them two serious security flaws. The 2.4.24 upgrade to the Linux kernel comes a month after the release of the...
[January 6, 2004, 8:15]
Linux kernel 2.6.17 released
News The final version of the latest Linux kernel, 2.6.17, was released to the public over the weekend. According to Linux-Watch, this wireless driver support relies on a new software MAC layer that has been added to the kernel's wireless stack and...
[June 20, 2006, 13:45]
Torvalds: Linux kernel release timing was mistake
News Linus Torvalds has admitted that the timing of the Linux 2.6.24 kernel was a mistake. Asked whether the release schedule would be pushed back to accommodate his attendance at the linux.conf.au conference, Torvalds said he normally would not have...
[February 12, 2008, 12:20]
Linux kernel gets Oracle cluster support
News Oracle on Tuesday touted at LinuxWorld that its Cluster File System 2 for Linux will be distributed with the Linux kernel. Now the software will be distributed as part of the Linux kernel version 2.6.16, according to Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 kernel...
[April 5, 2006, 10:35]
Linux kernel an 'invisible magician', says Torvalds
News The Linux kernel has reached a level of maturity where it mostly goes unnoticed and acts like an "invisible magician in the background", according to Linus Torvalds. I think the pressure has been off the kernel for a long time now, because a lot of...
[February 12, 2008, 11:27]
Linux kernel 2.6.15 offers 'full' InfiniBand support
News The latest version of the Linux kernel offers full support for running a Linux cluster on InfiniBand, with the addition of a driver for storage systems based on the high-speed networking standard. Version 2.6.15 of the Linux kernel, which was...
[January 5, 2006, 16:20]
Linux kernel team grows, Torvalds drops off chart
Blog The 2009 report on the state of Linux kernel development (pdf) has been published by the Linux Foundation. With this breadth and depth of support, the report concludes, "even if the largest contributor were to cease participation tomorrow, the...
[August 21, 2009, 15:09]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback First you talk about linux asnd windows, then say the kernel will become irrelevant. Linux IS THE KERNEL! Hahaha ZDnet at it again. This _IS_ the most retarded article ever. RETARD!
[July 2, 2004, 10:57]
