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    • Testing Suspend and Hibernation | KernelTrap

    Posted by admin 432 days ago (http://kerneltrap.org)
    Category: Docs & HowTos | Tags: kernel suspend
    The following patches add a new testing facility for suspend and hibernation," noted Rafael J. Wysocki. He continued, "the first patch adds the pos read more »
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    • Linux Increase Process Identifiers Limit with /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max

    Posted by admin 431 days ago (http://www.cyberciti.biz)
    Category: Tips & Tricks | Tags: kernel howto
    /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max file specifies the value at which PIDs wrap around (i.e., the value in this file is one greater than the maximum PID). The default value for this file, 32768, results in the same range of PIDs as on earlier kernels ( read more »
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    • Kernel space: experimental container support for 2.6.24

    Posted by admin 428 days ago (http://www.linuxworld.com)
    Category: Kernel | Tags: kernel security virtualization
    Faster than virtualization, but harder to implement, containers are a promising security technology for Linux. Watch the 2.6.24 kernel for experimental support for creating and managing containers.

    "Containers" are a form of lightweight virtual read more »
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    • Stable 2.6 Branches

    Posted by admin 425 days ago (http://kerneltrap.org)
    Category: Kernel | Tags: kernel 2.6
    "For the last release, I stated that I thought the 2.6.22.12 release would be the last one in the 2.6.22.y series. Since then, I've received a number of other patches that would be nice to have in the .22.y tree," explained Greg KH.

    He continu read more »
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    • Scheduler Fixes

    Posted by admin 421 days ago (http://kerneltrap.org)
    Category: Kernel | Tags: kernel
    Ingo Molnar sent a merge request to Linus Torvalds for the latest CFS fixes. CFS, the Completely Fair Scheduler, was merged into the mainline Linux kernel in July of 2007. It was first included in the 2.6.23 kernel, released in October of 2007. The read more »
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    • Ubuntu Server: Considering Kernel Configuration

    Posted by admin 421 days ago (http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com)
    Category: Docs & HowTos | Tags: ubuntu kernel
    Last week we looked at Ubuntu Server's documentation, discussed hardware requirements, tried to figure out what sets Ubuntu Server apart from Ubuntu Desktop, and what's included in the current release, 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Ubuntu itself is not ver read more »
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    • Linux Kernel Maintainers: Accountable To All, Beholden To None?

    Posted by admin 407 days ago (http://www.informationweek.com)
    Category: Kernel | Tags: linux kernel
    The Linux kernel is surrounded by hundreds of interested parties. How is it that none of them gains a commanding influence over the kernel's development priorities? HP, IBM, Oracle. Google, eBay and Intel each has a primary stake in Linux and emplo read more »
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    • Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.23.11 Released

    Posted by admin 389 days ago (http://pcburn.com)
    Category: Kernel | Tags: kernel
    The -stable team has announced another build of the stabilized Linux kernel. This one only fixes a couple of build problems, so if you're not having any trouble there no need to upgrade. read more »
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    • Linux kernel update offered

    Posted by admin 344 days ago (http://weblog.infoworld.com)
    Category: Kernel | Tags: kernel
    Linux kernel developers have released an updated kernel featuring capabilities to offload processing and to boost power management.

    Released last week, release 2.6.24 of the kernel features a generic interface point for large receive offload supp read more »
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    • Major Linux security hole found

    Posted by admin 331 days ago (http://www.linux-watch.com)
    Category: Security | Tags: kernel
    Security, the experts like to tell us, is a process, not a product.

    With open source that can be a very good thing since when security problems are found they can be fixed quickly. That's the case over this last weekend, Feb. 9-10, when a securi read more »
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