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17Lamp.net: Two members of ShangHai Linux User Group and Herbert Xu, a famous China native Linux kernel hacker, enjoyed a 2-day trip for Linux Conference of USTC (University of Science and Technology of China) in HeFei of China."

Linux Blog recommends an interview up on the O'Reilly site with Greg Kroah-Hartman, long-time Linux kernel hacker and the current Linux kernel maintainer for the USB driver core.

He updates the free Linux driver program announced almost two years ago, which has really caught traction now with more than 300 developers volunteering.

The interviewer begins by asking about Kroah-Hartman's claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has.

O'Reilly has an interview with kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman.

In it, they cover topics like Linux device support, the kernel development process, and the ever (un)popular binary-only device drivers.

"The ease of writing drivers; Linux drivers are at normally one-third smaller than Windows drivers or other operating system drivers.

We have all the examples there, so it's trivial to write a new one if you have new hardware, usually because you can copy the code and go.

John Sokol writes "I just heard from a good friend and Linux kernel hacker in Brazil that they have just finished their municipal election with 128 million people using Linux to vote.

They voted nationwide for something like 5,000 city mayors. Voting is mandatory in Brazil. The embedded computer they are using once ran VirtuOS (a variant of MSDOS); it now has its own locally developed, Linux-based distro.

These are much nicer, smaller, and cheaper than the systems being deployed here in the US. Here is a Java-required site with a simulated Brazilian voting system.

John Sokol writes "I just heard from a good friend and Linux kernel hacker in Brazil that they have just finished their municipal election with 128 million people using Linux to vote.

They voted nationwide for something like 5,000 city mayors. Voting is mandatory in Brazil. The embedded computer they are using once ran VirtuOS (a variant of MS-DOS); it now has its own locally developed, Linux-based distro.

These are much nicer, smaller, and cheaper than the systems being deployed here in the US. Here is a Java-required site with a simulated Brazilian voting system.

nerdyH writes "Dell is preparing to ship two enterprise-oriented Windows Vista notebooks with an interesting feature — a built-in TI OMAP (smartphone) processor that can power instantly into Linux.

The 'Latitude ON' feature is said to offer 'multi-day' battery life, while letting users access email, the web, contacts, calendar, and so on, using the notebook's full-size screen and keyboard.

I wonder if someday we'll just be able to plug our phones into our laptops, switching to the phone's processor when we need to save battery life?

LWN: "The only solution was to learn more about operating systems, and quickly. So I pulled out my favorite operating systems textbook and read and re-read it obsessively over the course of the next year.

It worked well enough that my company tried very hard to convince me not to quit when I got bored with my "dream job" and left to work at Sun."

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.

In this recent Slashdot post kernel hacker Harald Welte was characterized as "VIA's open source representative," but that is just one of many irons he has in the fire, as a glance at his Wikipedia bio will show.

You can obviously ask Harald about many interesting things besides VIA's open source strategy — and before you ask about VIA, you ought to read the last few entries on his blog, at least one of which mentions VIA questions he can't answer.

But VIA aside, there's plenty to ask Harald about.

Mathew Garret is head of the Ubuntu laptop team and has been a long time kernel hacker dealing with mobile and power management issues.

After a detailed analysis in his blog this is response on the matter: "Take home messages? There's no evidence whatsoever that the BIOS is deliberately targeting Linux.

There's also no obvious spec violations,"...