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Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, has fleshed out his unhappiness with GPLv3 in three recent posts on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

Most of you are probably aware of the general shape of Linux filesystems, but a very interesting message went out to the kernel mailing list that sums it up quite nicely.

Heise.de's Kernel Log has a look at the ext4 filesystem as Linus Torvalds has integrated a large collection of patches for it into the kernel main branch.

"This signals that with the next kernel version 2.6.28, the successor to ext3 will finally leave behind its 'hot' development phase." The article notes that ext4 developer Theodore Ts'o (tytso) is in favor of ultimately moving Linux to a modern, "next-generation" file system.

Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel was released in late 2003 and since then the developers have stuck with the 2.6.x.y version numbering.

It's been five years with the stable Linux 2.6 kernel, but a proposal has been made on the Linux kernel mailing list to change this scheme.

No, a Linux 2.8 kernel isn't secretly in the works, [...]

Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, has fleshed out his unhappiness with GPLv3 in three recent posts on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

A recent discussion on the Linux Kernel mailing list noted that threaded 64-bit applications suffer a drastic slowdown in pthread_create performance when stack utilization goes above 4GB.

Ingo Molnar offered an explanation of the problem, "unfortunately MAP_32BIT use in 64-bit apps for stacks was apparently created without foresight about what would happen in the MM when thread stacks exhaust 4GB.

"I have had to apply the reiser4 patches from -mm kernels to vanilla based patchset for over a year now.

Reiser4 works fine, what will it take to get it included in vanilla?" began a brief thread on the Linux Kernel mailing list.

Open Source infighting over the GPLv3 just turned nastier - in a post on the Linux kernel mailing list , Linus Torvalds effectively called the authors of the GPLv3 'hypocritical morons' .

InformationWeek has ...

LWN: "Even the most casual observer of the linux-kernel mailing must have noticed that, in the shadow of the firmware flame war, there is also a heated discussion over the management of security issues."

Even the most casual observer of the linux-kernel mailing must have noticed that, in the shadow of the firmware flame war, there is also a heated discussion over the management of security issues.

There have also been some attempts to turn this local battle into a multi-list, regional conflict. Finding the right way to deal with security problems i