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When the Linux maintainers found out about this, they quickly banned the entire university from Linux development, before the Linux Foundationsent the university a list of demands, to which it would seem the university quickly acceded, pulling its paper from an IEEE conference to which it was accepted and agreeing to provide “all information necessary to identify all proposals of known-vulnerable code from any U of MN experiment.” Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on, w...

University of Minnesota researchers issue apology letter to the Linux community Apr 25, 2021 04:18 EDT with 3 comments The University of Minnesota (UMN) researchers - Kangjie Lu, the Assistant Professor, and Qiushi Wu, Aditya Pakki, the Ph.D. students - have on Saturday issued an open apology letter seeking to bury the hatchet with the Linux community for the things which had led to the events that took place a few days back. One of the lead Linux kernel developers a...

iTWire Thursday, 22 April 2021 08:46 Uni group slammed over submitting known buggy patches to Linux kernel Featured Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay A group from the University of Minnesota have come in for a tongue-lashing from the normally mild-mannered Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, the maintainer of the stable kernel. Kroah-Hartman blew up after the group submitted patches to the kernel which were known to be buggy. He said in a post addressed to Adit...