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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. “You are not welcome here.” Ho...

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...