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Kernel support for infrared receivers
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| One of the stated goals of the staging
| tree is to bring widely-used drivers into
| the mainline kernel tree. This effort has
| been quite successful; the number of out-
| of-tree drivers has dropped considerably
| over the last year or so. There is one
| high-profile holdout, though: the Linux
| Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) subsystem.
| LIRC is used to obtain input events from
| remote control devices and feed them
| through to applications; Linux-based
| digital video recorder systems are heavy
| LIRC users, but there are others as well.
| Back in October, Jarod Wilson posted a new
| version of LIRC for consideration. One
| month later, the kernel developers have
| started talking about it; what they lack
| in punctuality has been more than made up
| for in volume.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/364515/
With Linux 2.6.32, Btrfs Gains As EXT4 Recedes
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| While the EXT3 file-system has been in the
| mainline Linux kernel since 2001 and work
| started on it back in the late 90's, this
| mature file-system (that used to be the
| default for most Linux distributions up
| until this year when more vendors began
| adopting EXT4) is still running strong
| with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel. In fact,
| after the recent EXT4 changes, EXT3 by
| default is faster than EXT4 in many of our
| disk benchmarks.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2632_fs&num=1
Top Geeks To Converge On Wellington
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| When the first Australasian Linux
| conference (LCA) was held at Monash
| University, Melbourne in 1999, it was
| funded entirely from one of the founder's
| personal credit cards. Since then, the
| conference has gone from strength to
| strength, attracting some of the biggest
| corporate sponsors such as Google, HP and
| IBM. In 2010, LCA will come to Wellington,
| New Zealand from Monday 18 to Saturday 23
| January, bringing together some of the
| brightest minds in the free and open
| source community.
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http://www.voxy.co.nz/business/top-geeks-converge-wellington/5/33114
Recent:
Kernel Log: New stable kernels, 2.6.33 with DRBD and RT2800PCI
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| Kernel versions 2.6.27.40, 2.6.27.41 and
| 2.6.31.7 offer minor improvements and correct
| several bugs â including one security hole.
| Torvalds has already incorporated more than
| 5,000 changes for Linux 2.6.33. Its merge
| window will probably be open for just over
| another week. Various developers are working
| on significant improvements to the open source
| Radeon graphics drivers.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-New-stable-kernels-2-6-33-with-DRBD-and-RT2800PCI-883212.html
A Great Present In The Linux 2.6.33 Kernel
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| David Airlie has just called upon Linus
| Torvalds to pull in the latest DRM patches
| for inclusion into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel.
| The Direct Rendering Manager improvements in
| this next kernel release will be
| particularly interesting and are perhaps as
| significant as earlier kernels that had
| introduced kernel mode-setting support for
| Intel and ATI/AMD hardware along with in-
| kernel memory management. The changes that
| the Linux 2.6.33 kernel will bring are
| aplenty and will impact almost all of those
| using an open-source graphics driver stack.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc4OQ
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