 Ted T'so | Fast ext4 fsck times, revisited
Last night I managed to finish up a rather satisfying improvement to ext4’s inode and block allocators. The ext4’s original allocator was actually a bit more simple-minded than ext3’s, in that it didn’t implement the Orlov algorithm to spread out top-level directories for better filesystem aging. It also was buggy in certain [...]
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 Brian Profitt | Linux as Messenger of Freedom
My weekend was a nice balance of relaxation and thinking--provided by a good book (The Unincorporated Man), a trip to the beach, and a very thought-provoking question from a Linux.com reader.See? I do read your e-mails.The question came from one Oscar Slone, who wrote:read more
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 Angela Brown | LinuxCon Program and Event Details Take Shape
This year is moving by quickly and it seems that LinuxCon is now just a few months away. It has been very exciting watching the event take shape, and I know it will be a success for this, and years to come. Some of the highlights that I see for this year include:
The speakers: We’ve [...]
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 Linux Weather Forecast | The kernel gets a new mascot
Sharp-eyed observers may have noticed a slightly unusual patch which was merged into the mainline kernel on March 17. It’s a new mascot for the kernel; among other things, this image is shown at boot time for a number of configurations. For many a year, the mascot has been Tux the penguin. [...]
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 Linux Foundation Legal | The EC Settlement: Rambus, Writs and the Rule of Law
Why did perennial litigant Rambus, Inc. settle with the European Commission?
Certainly the most watched standards-related legal conflict of the decade involves the participation of memory technology vendor Rambus, Inc. in a working group hosted by standards developer Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) in the early 1990s. The fame (or notoriety) of the conflict [...]
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 FOSSBazaar | The Far-reaching Implications of Licence Violation
When we think about the implications of non-compliance with F/OSS licensing the considerations tend to be around legal exposure and concern that the conditions of a reciprocal license, e.g. the GPL, may propagate into proprietary code. When risk is assessed it is usually in terms of the possibility of litigation and the associated costs, and/or the weakening of business models that are based upon exercising exclusive rights in connection with associated proprietary IP.
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 Linus Torvalds | Outwitting the fashion police
This is a public service announcement for all geeks.Are you tired of people pointing out that you shouldn't use socks and sandals? I know, it really annoyed me too. It's like they are trying to take away your geek card.But there's a solution.For a year now, I've been avoiding the fashion police by instead of "sandals" wearing "shoes with holes in their sides". I've got these Keen's that look enough like shoes that nobody ever bats an eye at you wearing them with socks (Ok, by "nobody", I mean my wife, but that's all that matters, right?).The problem is that it looks like the fashion police may be starting to figure it out. The model I have seems to be no longer in production, and now all the new ones I find are pretty obviously sandals (toes and/or heel showing).So when I wear out my current ones, I'm going to be in trouble again. Damn.
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