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Special features
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Recent LWN.net kernel pages
The Kernel Page, part of the LWN.net Weekly Edition, provides a
detailed weekly summary of events, releases, and discussions within
the kernel development community. Recent weeks have covered (among
other things):
| Date | Contents |
|---|
| Jan 07, 2009 |
2.6.29 merge window, part 1; The future for grsecurity; Btrfs aims for the mainline |
| Dec 24, 2008 |
Justifying FS-Cache; 2.6.28 statistics; Union mounts |
| Dec 17, 2008 |
System calls and 64-bit architectures; Followups: performance counters, ksplice, and fsnotify; SQLB. |
| Dec 10, 2008 |
A new realtime tree; Tracking down a runaway loop; Dueling performance monitors. |
| Dec 03, 2008 |
Tux3: the other next-generation filesystem; Debugfs and the making of a stable ABI; Variations on fair I/O schedulers. |
| Nov 26, 2008 |
Ksplice and kreplace; CUSE; Driver API: sleeping poll(), exclusive I/O memory, and DMA API debugging. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
UKUUG: Interconnecting with PCIe; Tbench troubles II; UKUUG: The right way to port Linux |
| Nov 12, 2008 |
Tracking of testers and bug reporters - a status report; /dev/ksm: dynamic memory sharing; The sad story of the em28xx driver. |
| Nov 05, 2008 |
Linux and object storage devices; Large I/O memory in small address spaces; Hierarchical RCU |
| Oct 29, 2008 |
Closing out the 2.6.28 merge window; Tracking tbench troubles; Squashfs. |
Recent kernel patches
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