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The 2.6.32 kernel is out

Last Updated on Thursday, 03 December 2009 23:51 Written by Michele Petrecca Thursday, 03 December 2009 23:45

Linus Torvalds announced the release of a stable Linux 2.6.32 kernel. Major new features include the implementation of kernel-based mode setting (KMS) plus 3D graphics support for new Radeon cards, plus new kernel shared memory (KSM) technology for KVM virtualization, power-saving and performance improvements, and a faster "Devtmpfs" boot technology.

An important Linux (kernel) fix

Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2009 21:37 Written by Michele Petrecca Monday, 09 November 2009 21:36

Most of the time you can go for months, years, without patching your Linux distribution and not be in any real danger. A recently uncovered security hole in the Linux kernel does deserve your attention. Specifically, Earl Chew, a Linux developer, and, at about the same time, Brad Spengler, creator of the Linux security program Grsecurity, discovered that there was a possible null pointer error that could, in theory, enable non-root users grab administrator privileges. You don't want that to happen. This particular bug, known in developer circles as CVE-2009-3547, hits all modern versions of the Linux 2.6 kernel It's been fixed in the upcoming 2.6.32 RC (release candidate), but unless you're running on Linux's bleeding edge, you're not running that version of the kernel.

Released Gnome 2.28.1

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00 Written by Michele Petrecca Friday, 23 October 2009 20:32

This is the first update to GNOME 2.28. It contains the usual mixture of bug fixes, translations updates and documentation improvements. The next stable version of GNOME will be GNOME 2.28.2, which is due on December 16. Meanwhile, the GNOME community is actively working on the development branch of GNOME that will lead to the next major release in March 2010.

Released Kde 4.3.2

Last Updated on Friday, 09 October 2009 13:25 Written by chna1991 Friday, 09 October 2009 13:24

Kde 4.3.2 released on 6th october. It has a numer of bugfixes, like:
- Many crashers have been fixed in KDE's core libraries, bringing more stability to all applications
- KWin's window compositing effects have been further stabilized by fixing a number of bugs in effect plugins such as the famous coverswitch window switcher
- The biggest number of bugs for this release has been fixed in KMail, KDE's email client, making it more reliable and usable by correcting a number of display issues
- Saving files over themselves works again in Okular, KDE's document viewer
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The Linux kernel 2.6.31 has been released

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00 Written by Michele Petrecca Thursday, 10 September 2009 21:59

Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.31 kernel. This release include performance counter support, the "fsnotify" notification infrastructure, kernel mode setting for ATI Radeon chipsets, the kmemleak tool, char drivers in user space support, USB 3 support, and much more. As always, see the KernelNewbies 2.6.31 page for a much more exhaustive list.

From lwn.net.

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