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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 […]

7 October, 20097 October, 2009Tech

What’s the diff?

Don’t mind me, just posting something on my blog for later retrieval, that is how to create patch in unified format. I always forget. diff -uNr file1 file2 > patch […]

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 […]

7 May, 2009FOSS

Trimming the FAT: Linux and Patents

My first article for Linux Magazine has just gone live. The TomTom case exposed a long-simmering problem resulting from the combination of patents, proprietary software companies and open source. Andrew […]