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"'Now that we are (presumably) approaching the next merge window, can I ask what use (if any) will you be making of the linux-next tree? Alternatively, is there any information you want from it?' Stephen Rothwell asked regarding the tree he start
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"Ok, I lost a day-and-a-half this week due to a disk that decided to get
read errors due to an unfortunate power outage, and had to spend too much
time regenerating my normal setup, but I don't think I lost any emails,
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read errors due to an unfortunate power outage, and had to spend too much
time regenerating my normal setup, but I don't think I lost any emails,
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"Ok, this kernel is a winner," began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, playfully announcing the 2.6.25-rc2 kernel which gained the name "Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it".
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Spinlocks are the lowest-level mutual exclusion mechanism in the Linux kernel. As such, they have a great deal of influence over the safety and performance of the kernel, so it is not surprising that a great deal of optimization effort has gone into
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"Ok, it's a bloody large -rc (as was 24-rc1, for that matter), probably because the 2.6.24 release cycle dragged out, so people had a lot of things pending," noted Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.25-rc1 kernel. He added, "the full diff is som
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Now and then, you will likely need to familiarize yourself with a technically scientific process called “Fiddling With the Kernel.” There is quite a bit of documentation on this topic. I don’t want to go too far into the specifics of which options t
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Ingo Molnar posted a merge request for the latest git scheduler tree summarizing, "it contains various enhancements to the scheduler - find the full shortlog is below. 96 commits from 19 authors - scheduler developers have been busy again. :-/" He
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"This patch speeds up e2fsck on Ext3 significantly using a technique called Metaclustering," stated Abhishek Rai. In an earlier thread he quantified this claim, "this patch will help reduce full fsck time for ext3. I've seen 50-65% reduction in
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I consider myself to be a geek. Linux and geeks have a long history together. So, naturally there are a bunch of geeky things available for Linux. In this case, I’m talking about screensavers. I was looking for a screensaver that would show me somet
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The combination of the Linux kernel and GNU packages has always been regarded as a secure operating system, but can it be more secure? Kernel hardening is the answer to tightening up the Linux backbone. GrSecurity, a kernel patch for Linux, is one o
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