linuxfr.org: “LinuxFR : You’ve been doing Linux for about 20 years now and it’s a hard job. Is it still fun ? Linus Torvalds : Oh, absolutely. It’s still fun. And partly exactly because I’ve been doing it for 20 Continue reading
LWN : “I’ve included here a proof-of-concept local privilege escalation exploit for Linux. Please read the header for an explanation of what’s going on. Without further ado, I present full-nelson.c: *This is the interesting one, and the reason I wrote Continue reading
Rants & Rambles: “The Linux kernel is predominantly written in C, so that programmers can stay close to the hardware. Also there were no large-scale managed languages at the time the project was started. There are some interesting projects that Continue reading
Phoronix: “While we have conducted studies related to the Linux kernel performance in the past such as benchmarking up to twelve kernel releases, going out the door this morning are the results from the largest-ever Linux kernel comparison conducted at Continue reading
The last updated yum package, several weeks ago, removed the 2.6.33 kernel on my system as part of the process involved in adding the latest 2.6.34 kernel. If you can’t give up 2.6.33 kernel now, It’s the only kernel that Continue reading
Ksplice uses new technology to build security updates for Linux that can be installed without restarting. The technology was developed by cofounder Jeff Arnold while he was a graduate student at MIT, and last week, it won the grand prize Continue reading
Linux Compatible: “SUSE Security Announcement Package: kernel Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2010:039 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 Vulnerability Type: local privilege escalation CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) SUSE Default Package: yes Cross-References: CVE-2010-2524, CVE-2010-2537, CVE-2010-2538 Continue reading
H-online: “As a potential attack scenario, Wojtczuk describes the X Server, where the distance between the boundaries of the heap and stack can be made very small by filling the memory with data such as pixmaps. A subsequent request for Continue reading
KernelNewbies: “Summary: Linux 2.6.35 includes support for transparent spreading of incoming network load across CPUs, Direct-IO support for Btrfs, an new experimental journal mode for XFS, the KDB debugger UI based on top of KGDB, improvements to ‘perf’, H.264 and Continue reading
Stable kernel 2.6.32.15 has been released. “It reverts two patches that were previously applied that shouldn’t have been in the .32 kernel series. If you don’t have any problems with the 2.6.34.14 2.6.32.14 kernel, there’s no need to upgrade to Continue reading