Kernel

2.6.23 includes the new, better, fairer CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support,…

There's another item to add to my list of 7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop. An Australian doctor who spent his spare time working on the kernel says desktop performance is…

"From the kernel mailing list: "[the -stable team] are announcing the release of the 2.6.22.3 kernel. This release has a few bugfixes so all users of the 2.6.22 series are encouraged to update to…

Willy Tarreau, maintainer of the 2.4 kernel series, wants to continue to oversee the Linux version 2.6.20 a bit longer than the maintainers of the stable kernel series would normally have done.…

It may be thankless, boring work, but you have to get more involved in building the Linux Kernel.

That was the underlying message to Sun Microsystems and Microsoft by Linux Kernel co-…

Emulex Corporation today announced its LightPulse Virtual Host Bus Adapter (HBA) driver is the first to be accepted into the Open Source Linux kernel. Emulex's LightPulse Virtual HBA technology…

The Linux 2.6.22 kernel was release yesterday. Features include a WLAN driver for the OLPC laptop and an Ivtv driver for various Hauppauge WinTV-PVR models, new WLAN and FireWire stacks and…

If the goal for 2.6.20 was to be a stable release (and it was), the goal for 2.6.21 is to have just survived the big timer-related changes and some of the other surprises (just as an example: we…

More than half of the 1.2 million lines of code for the real-time kernel technology have been moved into the mainline Linux kernel over the past year, Tim Burke, the director of emerging…

The open-source OKL4 microkernel, developed by Australia's Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology (NICTA), is about to receive a strong commercial push. Open Kernel (OK)…