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November 10, 2008 - 3 hours, 19 minutes ago Share Comments I've been doing some thinking since writing about kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman's statement that Linux supports more devices than any other ...

OStatic: "I've been doing some thinking since writing about kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman's statement that Linux supports more devices than any other operating system.

Readers made some good comments, and after some time spent wrestling with my (yes, supported) webcam, I can venture an additional suggestion as to why it doesn't always seem that way, beyond Kroah-Hartman's theory of a non-supported device becoming "personal.""

November 06, 2008 - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago Share Comments In an intriguing interview with kernel developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, he says he has evidence that Linux now supports more devices than any other ...

Linux Magazine: "In the second keynote of the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany, cofounder of LWN.net and kernel developer Jonathan Corbet presented details on yesterday's released Kernel 2.6.27, but also described some of the work Linux Torvalds and his group of hackers have been up to."

"Linux kernel developer and Novell engineer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, recently lashed out at competitor Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, for not contributing enough to the Linux community."

Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman was honored to give the opening keynote of the first Linux Plumbers Conference this year in Portland, Oregon.

Here are the slides and text of his talk, The Linux Ecosystem - What it is and Where do You Fit in it?.

Guest author Val Henson writes: "Back in 2001, I landed my (then) dream job as a full-time Linux kernel developer and distribution maintainer for a small embedded systems company.

I was thrilled - and horrified. I'd only been working as a programmer for a couple of years and I was sure it was only a matter of time before my new employer figured out they'd hired an idiot.

The only solution was to learn more about operating systems, and quickly.

A guide to the kernel development process aims to encourage participation by new programmers by explaining what's involved.

Some developers and businesses attempting to submit changes to the Linux kernel find themselves tangled up with the processes used, according to the guide...

Guest author Valerie Henson returns to LWN with this interview with kernel developer Kristen Carson Accardi.

Topics covered include life as a kernel hacker and a bunch of information about the Linux Plumbers Conference.

Click below (subscribers only) for the full interview.

James Bottomley has posted an essay on graphics drivers on the Linux Foundation site.

"For Linux, the best way of demonstrating user satisfaction objectively is with the kerneloops project, which tracks reported problems with various kernels (an oops is something that's equivalent to a panic on Unix or blue screen on windows).

For instance looking at the recently released 2.6.25 kernel one can see that both the binary Nvidia driver and binary ATI firegl driver account for positions in the top 15 oopses.