It started with a phone call. Could we build a Linux box that would mount and read a DEC drive and make the data available to NT workstations via Samba? The answer was “I'll have to get back to you.” ...

Lead kernel developer Linus Torvalds announced the official release of Linux 2.6.28 on Wednesday. The new version introduces some noteworthy changes that will put the kernel in a strong position for ...

After a reboot I saw that most of my computer’s memory was free, but when I launched my application it used up almost all the memory. When I stopped the application the memory didn’t come back! Take a ...

Writing filesystems, or any kernel code, is hard. The kernel is a complex environment to master, and small mistakes can cause severe data corruption. Filesystems, however, offer a clean data access ...