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Linux: 2.6.34-rc4, "Hunting A Really Annoying VM Regression" 13 Apr 2010 | 05:16 pm
"It's been two weeks rather than the usual one, because we've been hunting a really annoying VM regression that not a lot of people seem to have seen, but I didn't want to release an -rc4 with it," be...
Linux: Properly Creating And Testing Patches 10 Apr 2010 | 08:18 am
"If you're wondering why I'm taking a long time to respond to your patches,", began Theodore Ts'o on the linux-ext4 mailing list, in a thread that offered much insight into how and why to properly sub...
Linux: Memory Compaction 3 Apr 2010 | 12:11 pm
Mel Gorman posted the seventh version of his Memory Compaction patches asking, "are there any further obstacles to merging?" The patches, first posted in May of 2007, provide a mechanism for moving GF...
Linux: Removing The Big Kernel Lock 2 Apr 2010 | 02:52 am
Arnd Bergmann noted that he's working on removing the BKL from the Linux kernel, "I've spent some time continuing the work of the people on Cc and many others to remove the big kernel lock from Linux ...
Website Updated 22 Jul 2009 | 04:44 pm
KernelTrap has been updated to Drupal 6. We're running a fair bit of custom code, so please let me know if you find anything broken or if any of your favorite features are missing. And yes, this upgra...
Linux: First Release Of nftables 2 Apr 2009 | 09:05 am
Netfilter maintainer Patrick McHardy recently announced a first alpha-release of nftables, slated to eventually replace iptables as the standard Linux packet filtering engine. Nftables aims to simplif...
2.6.27-rc8, "This One Should Be The Last One" 1 Oct 2008 | 03:55 am
"So yet another week, another -rc," began Linux creator, Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc8 Linux kernel. He continued, "this one should be the last one: we're certainly not running out of regr...
Quote: The Real Bug 1 Oct 2008 | 03:38 am
"The _real_ bug is clearly in the hardware design that allows you to brick those things without apparently even having a lock bit. I'm hoping Intel doesn't treat this as just a software bug. Some hw d...
2.6.27-rc6, "Things Are Calming Down" 13 Sep 2008 | 10:42 am
"The patches most people hopefully care about tend to be small details," noted Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.27-rc6 kernel. He continued, "and so more regressions should hopefully be closed now, ...
Quote: Careful Analysis 13 Sep 2008 | 10:31 am
"Some secure protocols like SSH send encrypted keystrokes as they're typed. By doing timing analysis you can figure out which keys the user probably typed (keys that are physically close together on a...
