kernel linux operating system
Ubuntu patches flaw
News Ubuntu became the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating system's kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to find their way into users' machines. Ubuntu administrators wrote in the email: "It was... [26 Aug 2008]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News As well as promoting Linux around the world, the Linux Foundation also sponsors the work of Linux kernel project lead Linus Torvalds. Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. [20 Aug 2008]
Designing a Highly-Scalable Operating System: The Blue Gene/L Story
White Paper Compute nodes run a lightweight operating system called the compute node kernel. I/O nodes run a port of the Linux operating system. Compute nodes are dedicated to running application processes, whereas I/O nodes are dedicated to performing system... [04 Aug 2008]
Operating System Multilevel Load Balancing
White Paper Although sched domains implementation allows Linux to build a multilevel hierarchy to represent multilevel machines, the generic code of the current kernel version builds no more than two levels in the sched domains hierarchy. [10 Jul 2008]
Optimal Communication Performance on Fast Ethernet With GAMMA
White Paper The current prototype of the Genoa Active Message MA- chine (GAMMA) is a low-overhead, Active Messages-based inter-process communication layer implemented mainly at kernel level in the Linux Operating System. [10 Jul 2008]
Linux Scalability - From the Micro to the HUGE
White Paper The author attempts to explain what scalability is as far as an operating system kernel is concerned, explain where Linux has come from and is now, and then give a possible vision for the future, as to how Linux can maintain and enhance its... [03 Jul 2008]
Trusted Path Execution for the Linux 2.6 Kernel as a Linux Security Module
White Paper The Linux Security Module project was aimed at applying security to the Linux kernel without imposing on the system. Several approaches are available to solve such a problem at the application level of a system but very few are actually implemented... [03 Jul 2008]
Real-Time Linux Kernel Design, Minimization and Optimization
White Paper Specifically, it covered the following topics: real-time operating system requirements; why the general Linux can not meet those real-time requirements; RTOS implementation approaches; mechanisms used in Real-Time Linux; skeleton code list and... [03 Jul 2008]
Userland File Systems in Linux
White Paper The mechanism for exporting a new file system in Unix, however, has traditionally required adding functionality to the kernel, which can be time-consuming and cumbersome. While certain variants of Unix exist that allow non-privileged processes to... [03 Jul 2008]
Bug analysis of the Linux kernel
White Paper The conclusion: the Linux kernel is a robust, secure system that has matured significantly. Four years of analysis of the source code for the Linux operating system have revealed that the code has improved significantly. [03 Jul 2008]
Installing Red Hat Linux 5.2 on Netfinity Servers
White Paper Version 5.2 of Red Hat Linux uses the Linux kernel Version 2.0. Red Hat is the largest commercial distributor of the Linux operating system. This paper discusses the installation procedures of Red Hat Linux 5.2 on Netfinity Servers. [03 Jul 2008]
Oracle9i Database Release 2 With Real Application Clusters for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 With EMC Celerra
White Paper This white paper covers the information on how to install and configure Oracle9i Real Application Clusters with EMC Celerra Network Server family, including the hardware setup, Linux operating system kernel parameter modifications, and Oracle9i... [03 Jul 2008]
Linux File Systems
White Paper In order to maintain the operating system modular, and to provide applications with a uniform programming interface (API), a higher layer that implements the common functionality of those underlying file systems is implemented in the kernel: the... [03 Jul 2008]
MontaVista Software Teams with IBM to Enable Zultys Enterprise Communication System
White Paper Zultys turned to MontaVista Software as MontaVista has an excellent reputation in the Linux community and it authored the preemptible kernel patch and real-time scheduler - two Linux extensions that are very important to them. [03 Jul 2008]
Linux - Past, Present and Future
White Paper In 1991 Linus Torvalds began developing an operating system kernel, which he named iaLinuxlg. This kernel could be combined with the FSF material and other components (in particular some of the BSD components and MIT's X-windows software) to... [03 Jul 2008]
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