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One of the topics of ongoing interest in the kernel community is that of maintaining quality. It is trivially obvious that we need to maintain and even improve quality. It is less obvious how best to do so. One broad approach that has found some real success is to increase the visibility of various aspects of the kernel. This makes the quality of those aspects more apparent, so this tends to lead to an improvement of the quality. Read more...

Most windows kernel routines use the following naming structure:

• The prefix is an abbreviation of the kernel-mode component where the routine is located. All routines can be found in either one of the manager components or one of the library components of the kernel operating system.
• The verb indicates the action that is being taken by the kernel.
• The noun indicates the kernel object being acted upon by the routine.
• The suffix differentiates between versions of a routine.

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The Ext4 file system leaves its main development phase and will soon be ripe for productive use. Major renovation work on the code for memory and disk management promises GPU speed increases and better scalability. Hundreds of new and revised drivers improve hardware compatibility significantly.

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The Linux Network sub-system supports several protocols. It is flexible enough to allow addition of new protocols.
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The Linux kernel has for a long time (at least since v2.1.23) contained a clever and well-optimised mechanism for calling initialisation code in drivers. It's clever because its functionality is largely abstracted from the driver developer, and it's well-optimised because after initialisation, memory containing the initialisation code is released. This article explores how this mechanism works.

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A remote buffer overflow vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could be exploited by attackers to execute code or cripple affected systems, according to a Gentoo bug report that just became public.

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Your Kernel just crashed or one of your drive is not working!! What do you do? Well, this article gives an introduction to some kernel debugging tools for Linux. These tools makes the kernel internals more transparent. These tools help you to trace the kernel execution process and examine its memory and data structures.
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With two weeks having passed since the Linux 2.6.27 kernel release, Linus Torvalds has closed the merge window for the next kernel (Linux 2.6.28) and he has pushed out the first release candidate in this next series.

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In the week since the publication of Linux 2.6.27, the kernel developers have already integrated more than 4000 patches into the main development tree of Linux, from which kernel version 2.6.28 will emerge in late December or early January (Linux 2.6.27).In the case of the IDE subsystem, for example, that is essentially matched to parallel ATA, there have again already been many large changes in previous kernel versions (1, 2), although all current ATA controllers supported by the drivers of the IDE subsystem have already long been able to respond to the new Libata drivers.

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The Red Hat Crash Utility is a kernel-specific debugger. It is usually used for performing postmortem system analysis when the system panicked, locked up, or appears unresponsive. In this short article, Eugene Teo will give a quick overview of how you can install crash and how you can use it to get important information from the crash dump files for debugging and root-cause analysis purposes.

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Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman is leading an effort now that could possibly end up changing the way the Linux kernel is numbered.

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After the web learned earlier this week that the final name of Vista's successor was Windows 7, all hell broke loose. The general consensus was that Windows 7 wasn't a bad name, but the reasoning behind it wasn't very clear. Many couldn't figure out how Microsoft had reached the number 7 (I'll give you a hint: they were looking at the kernel version number, instead of counting every single minor and major Windows release). But then others wanted to know why the current builds of Windows 7 were at kernel version 6.1, not 7.0.

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Everyone and their grandmother builds Linux kernels. Many people build BSD, and some brave men even compile the OS X kernel every now and then. Why not compile your own Solaris kernel for a change?There is lots of documentation scattered out there, many pieces, incomplete, outdated and over-generalized tutorials. This will walk you through installing Solaris, adding all components required for building, and actually compiling a kernel in 73 easy steps.

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The Linux development community has released version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel. This will be the first version of the kernel that includes a new file system designed for solid-state memory technology devices (MTD), called UBIFS.

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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday on the Linux kernel mailing list the official release of Linux 2.6.27. This release includes some nice improvements and follows roughly three months after the release of 2.6.26.

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On October 5th 1991, Linux Torvalds sent a message to the newsgroup comp.os.minix titled Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT (original announcement now archived at google’s usenet archive). That was about 17 years back when all ...
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This month, the final Linux kernel 2.6.27 will arrive as Linus already stated that RC8 would be the last RC before the final version goes out. The regression were reduced and if nothing major going on, we should see the final version in a few days

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