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This week at LWN: Toward a smarter OOM killer

The Linux memory management code does its best to ensure that memory will always be available when some part of the system needs it. That effort notwithstanding, it is still possible for a system to reach a point where no memory is available. At that ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  21 Nov 2009

This week at LWN: Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend

Back in July, your editor stumbled across Google's Courgette announcement and promptly added it to the LWN topic slush pile. He then promptly let it sit for three months or so. The news that this software is now the subject of a patent suit brought ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  RPM, Inc.

This week at LWN: Community contributions and copyright assignment

Over the course of the last month or so, your editor has been to six conferences on three continents. When engaged in that kind of travel, it is, of course, obligatory to determine which country has the best beer; normally, substantial amounts of ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  17 Nov 2009

This week at LWN: A report from JLS

Like a number of Asian countries, Japan has, in the past, had a reputation for being a great consumer of Linux: Japanese companies have been happy to make use of it when it suited them, but contributions back to Linux have been relatively scarce. The ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sony

This week at LWN: KS2009: How Google uses Linux

There may be no single organization which runs more Linux systems than Google. But the kernel development community knows little about how Google uses Linux and what sort of problems are encountered there. Google's Mike Waychison traveled to Tokyo to ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  RPC, Inc.,  Alan Cox,  Intel

This week at LWN: The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit

The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan on October 19 and 20. Jet-lagged developers from all over the world discussed a wide range of topics. LWN's Jonathan Corbet was there, and has written the following summaries. (Log in to post ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

This week at LWN: Deadline scheduling for Linux

Much of the realtime scheduling work in Linux has been based around getting the best behavior out of the POSIX realtime scheduling classes. Techniques like priority inheritance, for example, exist to ensure that the highest-priority task really can run ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  27 Oct 2009

This week at LWN: Toward a freer Android

Linux-based mobile phone platforms are really just specialized distributions. Like other distributions, phone platforms will live or die based on how well they meet the needs of their users. The Android platform has a high profile at the moment as the ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Intel,  Motorola, Inc.

This week at LWN: The realtime preemption mini-summit

Prior to the Eleventh Real Time Linux Workshop in Dresden, Germany, a small group met to discuss the further development of the realtime preemption work for the Linux kernel. This "mini-summit" covered a wide range of topics, but was driven by a ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  13 Oct 2009

This week at LWN: LPC: 25 years of X

The X Window System quietly hit its 25th anniversary back in June; it is, undoubtedly, one of the oldest and most successful free software projects in existence. Keith Packard has been working with X for most of that time; at the Linux Plumbers ...

From JONATHAN CORBET, LXer,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Richard Stallman,  DTS, Inc.

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