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Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Has USB 3.0 Support

Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced on September 9th the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.31, a version that brings initial support for the upcoming USB 3.0 devices, Kernel Mode Setting support for ATI Radeon, initial support for NFS 4.1, and many other goodies for all Linux users around the worl...

10 September 2009
02:44 GMT

ATI Linux Video Driver 9.8 Supports Ubuntu 9.04

Advanced Micro Devices announced last night (August 17th) a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Linux display driver, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.8 suite updates the software to version 8.64 and brings support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jac...

18 August 2009
13:34 GMT

Newly Discovered Linux Kernel Vulnerability Affects All Versions Since 2001

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tiennes, two security specialists from Google, reported last night (August 13th) that they had discovered a critical security vulnerability in all Linux kernels (2.4 and 2.6) since 2001, for all architectures. The CVE-2009-2692 vulnerability allows regular users to get root rights on the affe...

14 August 2009
08:55 GMT

Kernel Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Canonical announced on July 28th the availability of a new Linux kernel security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 8.10 and 9.04 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches 4 important security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packa...

29 July 2009
03:53 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 OSes

Earlier today, Canonical has announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 8.10 and 9.04 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches no more than 15 security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packag...

2 July 2009
07:00 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Is Out, Includes the NILFS2 Filesystem

Today (June 10th), Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has announced the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.30, a version that brings initial support for the log-structured NILFS2 filesystem, the POHMELFS distributed network filesystems, the RDS protocol, and the Microblaze CPU architecture. It also includes...

10 June 2009
02:38 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Includes the Btrfs Filesystem

None other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced last evening the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.29, a version that brings initial support for the highly expected Btrfs filesystem. Btrfs is a brand new filesystem created by Chris Mason and designed to act like the ZFS or WAFL ones. When Btrf...

24 March 2009
04:50 GMT

New Nvidia Video Drivers for Linux Bring Support for Kernel 2.6.28

Another improved version of the Nvidia proprietary video driver for the Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris open source operating systems was made available by the Nvidia Corporation on January 8th, 2009. The major feature brought by the Nvidia 180.22 display driver is the initial support for Linux kernel 2.6.28 and for the f...

9 January 2009
08:51 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.28 Is Out, Supports Ext4 Filesystems

Here's a nice Christmas present for all you Linux users, developers, fanboys out there, as Linus "almost Santa" Torvalds announced on December 24th the final release of Linux kernel 2.6.28, a version that brings stable support for the highly expected Ext4. The fourth extended filesystem or ext4 is a journaled fi...

28 December 2008
09:41 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.27 Is Out

Linux kernel 2.6.27 was released last night by its father, Linus Torvalds - "So not a lot happened after -rc9, which is mostly good. I certainly don't want to have any upheavals at the end of an -rc series, although I wouldn't have minded more people looking at the regression list. That said, I think we...

10 October 2008
02:11 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.26 Released

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday the availability of the brand new 2.6.26 Linux kernel. It comes with support for read-only bind mounts, x86 Page Attribute Tables (PAT), improved webcam support with the help of a driver for UVC devices, and many other improvements.Linus Torvalds said about the new edition: "So it&#...

14 July 2008
05:33 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.25 Released

Linus Torvalds announced last evening the immediate availability of the 2.6.25 Linux kernel. This new release contains new technologies, some updated drivers and miscellaneous fixes:"It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned ou...

17 April 2008
02:54 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.24.3 and 2.6.25 RC3 Launched

Two new versions of the heart of all Linux distributions were released: the stable 2.6.24.3 and the development 2.6.25 RC3 kernel. The developers advise you to update your kernel to the latest version, because of the numerous fixes included in it.The stable release, 2.6.24.3, comes with the following features and bug...

26 February 2008
05:47 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.25 RC1 and 2.6.24.2 Released

The core of all Linux distributions, the Linux kernel version 2.6.25 RC1 and 2.6.24.2 was released. The 2.6.25 RC1 is a development release, and it is much larger than its predecessors.The development edition, 2.6.25 RC1, is almost 11MB large, and has 1.4 millions lines of diffs. Most of the changes are located in th...

11 February 2008
09:13 GMT

Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released

It's here and it is the hottest Linux kernel ever! Why? Because it includes CPU "group scheduling", tickless support for x86-64/PPC and other architectures, memory fragmentation avoidance, new wireless drivers and a new wireless configuration interface, SPI/SDIO MMC support, USB authorization, per-device dirty m...

25 January 2008
02:35 GMT

Linux Kernel Vulnerability: IPv6 Sockets Local DoS

A kernel vulnerability has been found today by Masayuki Nakagawa, which can be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack. This bug is due to an error in the "tcp_v6_syn_recv_soc()" a.k.a. net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c function where the IPv6 flow list (ipv6_fl_socklist) is shared with child socke...

23 March 2007
10:18 GMT


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