kernellogger

kernellogger, 2 hours ago to linux

The @LWN article on #Linux 6.9 development statistics is now freely available: https://lwn.net/Articles/972605/

'"[…] we are happy to launch the LWN Kernel Source Database as an experimental, subscriber-only feature. Much of the information found in these articles is available there, along with quite a bit more. We encourage readers to play with the system and to let us know what they think. To be clear: there is no plan to stop publishing these articles anytime soon […]"'

#kernel #LinuxKernel

kernellogger, 2 hours ago to linux

The @LWN article about the latest push of the #BPF extensible scheduler class (or "#sched_ext") for #Linux is now freely available: https://lwn.net/Articles/972710/

"'[…] Despite having attracted a fair amount of interest from the development community, sched_ext has run into considerable opposition and seems far from acceptance into the mainline. The posting by Tejun Heo of a new version of the sched_ext series at the beginning of May has restarted this long-running discussion[…]'" #kernel #LinuxKernel

kernellogger, 6 days ago to linux

Jeremy Allison writes:

'" The data shows that “frozen” vendor #Linux kernels, created by branching off a release point and then using a team of engineers to select specific patches to back-port to that branch, are buggier than the upstream “stable” Linux #kernel created by Greg Kroah-Hartman. '"

https://ciq.com/blog/why-a-frozen-linux-kernel-isnt-the-safest-choice-for-security/ #LinuxKernel