Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 2.6.27.57, 2.6.32.27, and 2.6.36.2 stable kernels. He notes that this is the last 2.6.27 kernel he will be releasing as he is turning that kernel over to someone else for maintenance as a long-term kernel (in keeping with the stable tree changes he announced on December 3). [...]

Earlier this month, the kernel.org infrastructure received several major system upgrades in the form of new servers for Mirrors1 and Mirrors2 of mirrors.kernel.org, as well as an upgraded master back end machine and a second dynamic web infrastructure box. According to a post on the Google Open Source Blog, Chief Kernel.org administrator John “Warthog9” Hawley [...]

The 2.6.34.7 stable kernel update has been released. “It fixes a single bug that a number of users have reported in that their USB devices no longer work properly. Sometimes it causes lost keystrokes, and other times X refuses to boot as it can not communicate properly with some tablet devices.” Read more at LWN.net

The 2.4 kernel lives – for a little while longer, at least. Willy Tarreau has just released the 2.4.37.10 update, with a small set of important fixes. This might just be the last update in this series, unless some sort of important fix comes in. “If nothing happens before September 2011, it’s possible that there [...]

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented simulation of a large-scale botnet after booting up 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They now are waiting for completion of a new, faster and more capable supercomputer at the Livermore, Calif., lab, on which they hope to run 10 million kernels [...]