Linux Kernel 2.6.29 has been released! New features include Kernel based graphic mode setting WiMAX support Access Point support in the wifi stack Inclusion of the btrfs and squashfs file systems Ecryptfs file name encryption Ext4 no journaling mode Ocfs2 meta data checksums More scalable RCU implementation File system freeze support Swap management in the [...] Read more »

The Kernel of an operating system is really the brain that makes everything work.  Without it we would be stuck with a bunch of code and nothing to control it or tell it how to get where it needs to go.  The kernel is a very complicated thing that can be difficult to understand it [...] Read more »

Today Linux turns 15 years old! It all started with Linus Torvalds becoming upset that he could not access his universities Unix server they way that he wanted to.  He decided to write his own little bit of code that then became the basis for all that we know as Linux. The whole project ended [...] Read more »