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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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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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