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The Linux 6.10 kernel is poised to remove support for old DEC Alpha EV5 platforms and earlier.

3.15 release cycle listed as busiest in history of the kernel. Linux grew in many ways, as did its contributors

When kernel code needs to work directly with user-space pages, it often calls get_user_pages() (or one of several variants) to fault those pages into RAM and pin them there. This function is not entirely easy to use, though, and recent changes have made it harder to use safely. Jan Kara and Dan Williams led a plenary session at the 2018 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit to discuss potential solutions, but it is not entirely clear that any were found.

The Linux Foundation's demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project ZDNet 4 hrs ago © Fatos Bytyqi To say that Linux kernel developers are livid about a pair of University of Minnesota (UMN) graduate students playing at inserting security vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel for the purposes of a research paper "On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits" is a gross understatement.  Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, well-known for being the most gener...

Open source maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman slams their project, claiming “our community does not appreciate being experimented on”