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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: 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: 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 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 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]
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 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]
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 Do_brk() Vulnerability
White Papers A critical security bug has been found in the Linux kernel 2.4.22 (and earlier) memory management subsystem. While performing a regular audit of the Linux kernel the same bug was found at the end of September 2003 and quickly realized its serious...
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Kernel Hash Table Behavior: Analysis And Improvements
White Papers Linux, an open-source POSIX-compliant operating system, relies on hash tables to manage pages, buffers, inodes, and other kernel-level data objects. Why worry about the kernel's hash tables? The reader of this paper will find significant...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Kernel Hardening
White Papers While not inherently insecure, the standard Linux kernel lacks advanced features to prevent or contain certain types of malicious attacks. This paper explores two approaches to hardening the standard Linux kernel: address space (memory) protection...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
Linux Kernel Specialization For Scientific Application Performance: UCSB Technical Report CS2005-29
White Papers Much of the functionality in the Linux kernel, however, has been designed to arbitrate between competing applications thus ensuring safety and fairness. In this paper, the authors investigate the performance effects of specializing the Linux kernel...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
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 Development
White Papers This paper gives a brief overview of the author's research into network protocols and then focuses on the process of development for the Linux kernel. This topic is approached both from a technical viewpoint and also the interactions with the open...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Kernel Makes Xbox Appearance
News The Xbox Linux Project, a volunteer effort aimed at running the Linux operating system on Microsoft's Xbox gaming console, said it has succeeded in booting the Linux kernel -- a small but important step forward.
[August 13, 2002, 15:55]
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 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 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 Flaw Could Trigger DoS Incidents
News Several versions of Linux from multiple vendors are reportedly vulnerable to a flaw in the Linux 2.4 kernel. According to the initial report from Secunia, the threat is related to a problem in the way the Linux kernel caches routing information...
[May 27, 2003, 13:55]
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]
