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75% of Linux code now written by paid developers
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| Forget lofty ideals about the open-source
| community: most Linux kernel code is
| written by paid developers at major
| corporations.
|
| [...]
|
| During a presentation at Linux.conf.au 2010
| in Wellington, LWN.net founder and kernel
| contributor Jonathan Corbet offered an
| analysis of the code contributed to the
| Linux kernel between December 24 2008 and
| January 10 2010. (The kernel serves as a
| basis from which individual distributions
| such as Ubuntu, Debian or Red Hat are
| developed, though these will often add or
| remove specific features.)
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http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm
The Importance of Legal Innovation
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| To that end, on February 10, 2010 the Linux
| Foundation and the Open Source Initiative
| will host a Strategic Planning Session for
| lawyers active in support or adoption of
| free and open source software. At this
| meeting our legal community will consider
| what legal issues we anticipate may arise
| and what foundations we might be able to
| lay to support continued rise of free and
| open source software.
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http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2010/01/importance-legal-innovation
Size Can Matter: Ramdisk Journal Metadata Performance - Part 2
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| As with the previous article, four journal
| sizes are tested to understand the impact
| of journal size on metadata performance.
| The four journal sizes are:
|
| * 16MB (0.0032% of file system size)
| * 64MB (0.0128% of file system size)
| * 256MB (0.0512% of file system size)
| * 1GB (0.2% of file system size)
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7675/1.html
Recent:
Kernel Log: Linux 2.6.33 enters test phase
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| With the end of the next kernel version's
| main development phase, the most important
| new features of Linux 2.6.33 have been
| determined: DRBD, Nouveau, support of the
| Trim ATA command and a bandwidth controller
| for block devices. The developers have also
| improved the Radeon drivers and the support
| of Intel Wi-Fi chips. New stable kernels
| also fix a vulnerability in the code of
| Ext4, but will shortly be superseded by
| even more current versions.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Kernel-Log-Linux-2-6-33-enters-test-phase-890581.html
Linux 2.6.33 RC1
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| Talking about the merge window: there were a
| lot of trees that left their pull requests
| pretty dang late. Not everything I merged
| yesterday and today were late pull requests,
| but a lot of it was. I'm used to have a
| fairly busy last day of the merge window, but
| it was a busy last two days this time -
| definitely worse than usual.
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/929499
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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