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18 May, 2014Korora

Decorating (a)kmod packages with modalias info for use with RPM

Originally posted by firnsy at Korora Project news. Whilst developing Pharlap, our utility for easing the installation and removal of drivers, we came across a big hurdle that other distributions […]

19 November, 201019 November, 2010FOSS

Miracle patch out-performed by four lines of bash

Well it’s nothing if not interesting. The ~200 line “miracle” patch promises a huge improvement in desktop responsiveness, but Lennart Poettering (from Red Hat) has replied to Linus’ praising comments […]

18 November, 2010FOSS

Con Kolivas posts his thoughts on the new ~200 line kernel patch

Con Kolivas (of SD/BFS fame) has posted his thoughts on the new ~200 line “miracle” kernel patch. It’s an interesting read. In short, he had already implemented something like this […]

15 September, 200915 September, 2009FOSS, Tech

Ksplice awarded most innovative security technology of 2009

Congratulations to the Ksplice team which has just been awarded the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in Security/Privacy for 2009! Ksplice is technology which can apply patches to the […]

10 September, 200910 September, 2009FOSS

Microsoft’s HV driver to enter 2.6.32, out in 2.6.33?

Greg Kroah-Hartman has posted a status update for drivers in the 2.6.32 kernel. This in particular, was rather funny: hv (Microsoft Hyper-V) drivers. Over 200 patches make up the massive […]

18 March, 2009FOSS, Tech

Arrrrch!

From time to time I need to compile a 32bit kernel on a 64bit system and the kernel’s make scripts appear to detect my hardware and override my settings. I […]

12 October, 200812 October, 2008FOSS

The openmoko is sooo Qt

Ever since I heard about the Openmoko, a completely open mobile phone, I was really interested. Open hardware, open software, Linux, handy little device that might be useful? Awesome. The […]

10 October, 2008FOSS

Linux 2.6.27

New kernel is out, yay! Of particular interest to me is using kexec as a way to suspend the machine, although it is only 32bit at the moment 🙁 There […]