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Kernel Developers Issue Joint Statement on Device Drivers

"We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source kernel code.

ACM OSR Linux Issue Available For Free Download

Eric Van Hensbergen writes "In accordance with the ideals of the issue's open source topic, the ACM has agreed to make the July issue of Operating Systems Review: Research and Developments in the Linux Kernel available for download free of charge. It contains a number of interesting papers written by LKML members like Rusty Russell, Paul McKenna, and Eric Biederman as well as academic OS researchers who've made contributions to mainline on topics ranging from RCL, VirtIO, Checkpoint & Resume, to CUBIC TCP, etc. A primary motivation behind this special-topics OSR issue was to help bridge a gap that currently exists between the kernel community and the academic OS research community, by encouraging kernel developers to publish recent additions to the Linux kernel as well as to provide a forum for experience papers which describe the introdu

ACM Operating Systems Review issue on the Linux Kernel available

We are pleased to announce the availability of the ACM Operating Systems Review special topics Issue on Research and developments in the Linux Kernel. It is available, for free, from the ACM Archives site: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1400097 Included are 12 papers about the advances that have been merged or are candidates to be merged into the Linux kernel, as well as new idea papers discussing promising experimental work. * Minding the gap: R&D in the Linux kernel by Muli Ben-Yehuda, Eric Van Hensbergen, Marc Fiuczynski * Introducing technology into the Linux kernel: a case study by Paul E. McKenney, Jonathan Walpole * Extending futex for kernel to user notification by Helge Bahmann, Konrad Froitzheim * Plan 9 authentication in Linux by Ashwin Ganti * Towards achieving fairness in the Linux scheduler by Chee Siang Wong, Ian Tan, Ros

Linux Kernel Drivers--AU Law on Interoperability

"For those of you who haven't seen it, some of the Linux Kernel developers have issued a statement on the use of closed source drivers in conjunction with the kernel (summary--it's a Bad Thing

Linux Foundation Paving Way for New Kernel Developers

Jack Spine writes "The Linux Foundation has published a how-to document for developers who want to negotiate the hidden shoals of open source. According to both the Linux Foundation and the Open Source Consortium, developers can get frustrated with the processes in open source coding, especially for enterprise-class projects like Linux. 'A guide to the kernel development process' aims to encourage participation from 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, which was written by Jonathan Corbet, executive editor of lwn.net and himself a Linux developer."

Kernel Developers Want Linux Purity

Linux Kernel Developers Signed A "Position Statement" Decrying the Use of Any Closed Source Kernel in Linux

Kernel Developers Want Linux Purity

Linux Kernel Developers Signed A "Position Statement" Decrying the Use of Any Closed Source Kernel in Linux

Low-cost software turns a PDA into a HART device communicator

ProComSol, Ltd. announces the DevCom2000 PDA, a full-featured HART device configuration software package for the PDA platform. This software grants access to all the features and functionality available in the HART device DD, allowing users to perform complete HART device configurations using their PDAs. This includes monitoring and editing device variables and executing all device DD methods. The software is based on the SDC-625 technology developed by the HART Communication Foundation (HCF). This technology allows full and complete access to all data in the device DD.

Update on iTunes Eating My Applications

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Can you Make Your Smartphone Smarter?

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Poll: Digital Music, How do you Roll?

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Amosu Ultimo Diamond iPhone costs $176k

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Blackberry Owners can now Sync with iTunes

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iPhone 2.0 Apps. They are Good! But Good Enough?

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Rut Roh Shaggy, Leaked details of the Palm Treo 800w

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Book Review: Linux Kernel Development

IconThe Linux phenomenon gets bigger by the day and more developers are drawn into developing for it. The heart of this very phenonmenon is its kernel and as time goes by it becomes more mature but also bigger and more complex. New developers would have trouble diving in and code for it, hence the "Linux Kernel Development" book by well known kernel hacker Robert Love (of preemptive-patch fame).

eBay Launches Hub for South East Asia Developers

eBay has launched the South East Asia Developers Program hub, a new website designed for providing important program information to developers located in South East Asia. Members who have already joined the eBay Developers Program do not need to register again. The SEA Developers Program launched their site with an eBay & PayPal Developer Challenge for legal residents of Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. eBay & PayPal developers are competing for up to $25,000 SGD in cash prizes.

Using Java to communicate to a USB device from browser

We have a java web application and now we have a new request: the client wants to communicate with their USB device using our application. They plug the device into their PCs, open a page of our web application and the page will communicate with the device to get some input. Of course the device must already have proper driver. Comunication here means reading some input from the device.

Transit Directions with Google Maps 2.2

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Are iPhone 3Gs developing cracks?

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The iPhone 3G is coming ... Friday

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Rhapsody "embracing" the iPod

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3G iPhone In-Store Activation Explained

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Linux Kernel Development Stats

Icon"Linux kernel hacker Greg Kroah Hartman's June 5, 2008 talk at Google titled "The Linux Kernel" was chock-full of details about kernel development". This is a collection of some statistics about the Linux kernel development from that talk. Juicy Bit:"Supports more processors and devices than any other OS in history".

Linux device papers available

The 2008 Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) has published 57 papers related to the Linux kernel and kernel development. Published as PDFs lightly reformatted for readability, the 57-paper collection includes many documents likely to interest embedded Linux device developers.

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