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S2E3 – 2023/03/09

Season 2 – Episode 3 – 2023/03/09 Summary The latest stable kernel is Linux 6.2.2, released by Greg Kroah-Hartman on March 3rd 2023. The latest mainline (development) kernel is 6.3-rc1, released by Linus on March 5th 2023. Mathieu Desnoyers has announced Userspace RCU release 0.14.0 which adopts a baseline requirement of C99 and C++11, and…

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S2E2 – 2023/02/12

Summary The latest stable kernel is Linux 6.1.11, released by Greg K-H on February 9th 2023. The latest mainline (development) kernel is 6.2-rc7, released on February 5th 2023. Linux 6.2 progress A typical kernel development cycle begins with the “merge window” (period of time during which disruptive changes are allowed to be merged into the…

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Kernel Podcast S2E1 – 2023/01/21

The Linux “Kernel Podcast” returns from a long hiatus for a new “season 2”. Our host Jon Masters introduces the new season, and summarizes recent happenings during Linux 6.2 development.

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S2E1 – 2023/01/21

Prologue This is the pilot episode for what will become season 2 of the Linux Kernel Podcast. Back in 2008-2009 I recorded a daily “kernel podcast” that summarized the happenings of the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). Eventually, daily became a little too much, and the podcast went weekly, followed by…not. This time around, I’m…

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Kernel Podcast for 2017/07/07

Linux 4.12 final is released, the 4.13 merge window opens, and various assorted ongoing kernel development is described in detail

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Kernel Podcast for 2017/05/14

Linux 4.12-rc1 (including a full summary of the 4.12 merge window), Linux 4.11 final is released, saving TLB flushes, various ongoing development, and a bunch of announcements

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Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/27

Linux 4.11-rc8, updating kernel.org cross compilers, Intel 5-level paging, v3 namespaced file capabilities, and ongoing development

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Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/19

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc7, a kernel security update bonanza, the end of Kconfig maintenance, automatic NUMA balancing, movable memory, a bug in synchronize_rcu_tasks, and ongoing development. The Linux 4.12 merge window…

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Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/11

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc6, Intel Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA), Coherent Device Memory (CDM), Paravirtualized Remote TLB Flushing,kernel lockdown, the latest on Intel 5-level paging, and other assorted ongoing…

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Linux Kernel Podcast for 2017/04/04

Linus Torvalds announces Linux 4.11-rc5, Donald Drumpf drains the maintainer swamp in April, Intel FPGA Device Drivers, FPU state cacheing, /dev/mem access crashing machines, and assorted ongoing development

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