Linux News Roundup (Kernel)
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-02-11 13:40:38 UTC
- Modified: 2014-02-11 15:17:53 UTC
Summary: Some of the latest bits of news about Linux, the Linux Foundation, and core parts of the kernel
Core
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Following the news that SUSE engineers are working on a kernel module called kGraft that can patch a running kernel, iTWire contacted the company to find out if Oracle's ownership of Ksplice - a mechanism for doing the same job - would pose any legal issues.
Ksplice was developed by Ksplice Inc under an open source licence until July 2011 when it was bought by Oracle and taken proprietary.
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While in-fighting continues within the Debian camp over what should be the default init system in Debian, a developer has shown off his own tiny "sinit" init system project.
The "Suckless Init System" is a real init system and is derived from M. Farkas-Dyck's Strake init code. This "suckless" init system is designed to be a simple system and was made to scratch the itch of a developer wanting to remove BusyBox from his toy Linux distribution, Morpheus.
Linux Foundation
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By definition, the Linux Foundation has Linux as its core mission, helping to bring the community of Linux developers and vendors together and fostering the right environment for collaboration. When the Linux Foundation started—it was created in 2007 as a result of the merger between the Free Standards Group (FSG) and Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)—Linux was the only thing that the group did. But in 2014, that's no longer the case.
Releases
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With the rest being filesystems (vfs, nfs, ocfs, btrfs and some kernfs fixes), some mm noise, and tooling (perf). Shortlog appended, which doesn't always happen for rc2.
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced a few minutes ago, February 6, that the second maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.13 is now available for download.
Hardware
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With the early Atom "Bay Trail" hardware being disastrous for Linux, when Intel recently announced their Bay Trail based NUC Kit we were anxious and decided to give this unit a go. The Intel NUC Kit DN2820FYK packs an Intel Celeron N2820 Bay Trail CPU and motherboard supporting up to 8GB of DDR3L system memory and 2.5-inch HDD/SSD in a 116 x 112 x 51 mm form-factor. In this article is a rundown of the Phoronix experience so far for this Atom NUC Kit and how well it's running with Ubuntu Linux.
SDN
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The needs of enterprises and service providers diverge when it comes to software-defined networking. Enterprises are the ones looking for capital and operational cost relief, while service providers require new service velocity, panelists at the inaugural OpenDaylight Summit said this week.
Graphics
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A new GLSL intermediate representation (IR) approach has been proposed for Mesa in replacing its existing tree-based representation for shaders.
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NVIDIA announced their first public Linux graphics driver beta in the 334.xx series today and with it comes a splendid number of changes.
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AMD has released the new AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Linux video driver for the Linux platforms, featuring quite a few changes and support for a couple of new chipsets.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Daniel Pocock Makes It Into Mainstream Media Again (Going After Racists)
- American bigots funding blatant and shameless racists here in the UK
- Another Woman (or Women) Has Just Run Away From Brett Wilson LLP (After Barely a Month!), the Hired Guns of Garrett and Graveley (Microsoft)
- They call this phenomenon "death spiral"
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 200 Out of 200: Will GNU Boot Undo the Technical Damage Caused by Microsoft and Garrett? (And Garrett's Litigation Allies From Microsoft)
- Today we publish the final part of this series
- Things Not to Measure in Quantity Alone
- More patents do not beget greater innovation
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 199 Out of 200: An American Burden on the British Legal System
- A year ago (October 2025) the head of media (Jointly in Charge of the Media and Communications List), the judge in the Garrett case, said that this case was a waste of the court's money
- Criminalising Opposition to Fraud
- slop causes social issues
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- Large Wave of IBM PIPs, the RAs Wave Comes After 'Low-Hanging' Fruit (Families) Disposed of
- PIPs are the new RAs
- Links 25/09/2026: Carcinogen Atrazine Pollutes Americans' Bodies, "Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel", and Anger Over Data Centres Grows
- Links for the day
- Theory That Microsoft Cheapens Its Workforce to Push Workers Out on Their Own (Theory Advanced by Insider)
- people work longer hours for less, i.e. their hourly salary is decreasing
- Tackling Racism in the United Kingdom (Racism Funded by Americans) Using the Courts
- We'll talk about racism my wife and I experienced in the events leading up to litigation
- US Government Sites Can Now Totally Ignore Mozilla Firefox Users or Users of Firefox Derivatives
- Firefox, now at 1.1% in the US (based on American government sites), has sunken to the point of no return
- Even Microsoft Boosters Start to Doubt XBox Will Exist (It's Being Phased Out, Just Not "Officially")
- This is how to phase out a business unit without officially saying so (as it might alarm investors)
- Omarchy is Built on the Idea That Slop is Desirable (It's Not)
- They call bots and plagiarism "agents" and "training"
- IBM is Shrinking Very Fast (Silent, Unannounced Layoffs)
- IBM and Microsoft both avoid WARN notices by compelling staff to leave or silently removing them with some NDA
- In Some Parts of Microsoft 50% of All Staff Subjected to Layoffs, Media Pretends Only 0.1% of Staff Are Removed
- This really says a lot about the state of today's so-called 'media'
- EPO Management Wants Everything to be Done in Microsoft Spyware
- In reality, this management should be ousted for normalising cocaine at the Office
- The Register MS Does Not Properly Flag Its SPAM About Slop
- Signs of desperation
- Gemini Links 25/09/2026: Ljubljana, Tanana River, and Curse of Slack
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 24, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Supporters of winding-up process staking claims against Reform UK Party (CR-2026-007405)
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Winding-up petition leaked before service on Reform UK Party Limited / Nigel Farage
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 24/09/2026: Laziness, Outdoor Seating, "AngelNova’s Interview Malware and Its North Korea Connection"
- Links for the day
- Links 24/09/2026: Slop "Linked to Disturbing Culture of Sexual Assault"; "Zelensky Warns Russia’s War Will Expand if It Is Not Ended Soon"
- Links for the day
- Winding-up petition served on Reform UK Party Limited (Nigel Farage)
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Appliances Should be Dumb
- Any "Smart Home Appliance" is basically a thing that does not last long, does not work as advertised, and is generally unfit for purpose
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 198 Out of 200: It Sounds Like Garrett is Now Sending People to Silence Critics (Including His Own Spouse)
- This week Garrett is having a somewhat karmic experience
- Links 24/09/2026: Slop Contaminating KDE, Slop-Focused Data Centres Have Severe Environmental Impact
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 197 Out of 200: Garrett Became So Poor That He Wants Others (in Another Continent) to Pay for His Own Legal Work Being Faulty
- They lie to courts
- The Register MS Has Become a Slopfest
- This is the behaviour of a perishing publisher
- Gemini Links 24/09/2026: Requiem for a Season, Philosophy, Rube-Goldberg Machine, ROOPHLOCH 2026, and Git over Gemini
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, September 23, 2026
- IBM Grapevine: Development Outsourced to LLM Slop and It Results in Many Bugs
- IBM is circling down the drain and every insider knows it
- Microsoft Gives Many People the 'Booty' This Week, Not Counting PIPs (Silent Layoffs and 'Voluntary' Layoffs)
- Microsoft PIPs allegedly target "20-25% in some teams."
- Nearly 1,000 People at EPO 'Met' to Plan Further Strikes and Impending Action to Dethrone Corrupt Leadership
- Exploring the purchasing "power" of EPO leadership (buying elections while doing cocaine in public)
- Links 23/09/2026: Pax Silica Hub Ruins a Country for a Pyramid Scheme (Slop), Convicted Felon's Press Block Resembles Iran, Russia, China
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/09/2026: Stuck, Gambling, Fury Road, IPFS, and More
- Links for the day
- The Register Got Paid Today to Spew Out "AI" Almost 50 Times (Keeping the Pyramid Scheme Buzzing in Headlines)
- paid-for spam
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 196 Out of 200: Sending Someone to Our Doorstep to Ship Approximately 5 KG of Legal Papers (Instead of to Our Representatives)
- it is not about law, this is lawfare
- IBM's Anderon Already Smells Like a Fraud and IBM Insiders Heckle the Lies From the Management
- Sabine Hossenfelder recently made some videos which explain in simple terms why IBM is lying and has already lied about this for years
- Links 23/09/2026: Mass-Surveillance by Clownflare and "Data Centre" Crunch Commences
- Links for the day
- Same Name/Brand, Not the Same Project/Product
- What is Linux becoming?
- Germany, Like Switzerland, Will Dump Microsoft's Proprietary Software and Disservices, Then Dump Windows for GNU/Linux
- This impacts not only the Windows revenue; this corrodes any "rents" Microsoft was getting from "subscriptions"
- 3 Years Divorced From Americans
- Next year we plan to pursue the UK's Court of Appeal
- The Register MS Uses Slop About Slop (in Images)
- Months ago we caught The Register MS using slop for text as well
- There Are Likely Over a Thousand Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Networks Online, Net Gain of 16 Seen This Month by Andreas Gelhausen's netsplit.de
- It's good that they're still tracking that sort of stuff
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 195 Out of 200: Two Years Since Garrett, Graveley and Lozza Worked in Parallel to Censor Techrights
- It began in September 2024, shortly after we had sued Garrett
- Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 8 - In Conclusion
- this can invite more SCO-like problems in the future
- Microsoft Shuts Down More Studios, Morale Low, More Mass Layoffs Ahead of Reports
- They pretend it's not happening or that it's a lot smaller than it actually is
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 22, 2026
- Gemini Links 23/09/2026: Ljubljana, Poetry, and FORTRAN
- Links for the day
