Stories about: Roland

Three weeks ago, LWN looked at the renewed interest in dynamic tracing, with an emphasis on SystemTap. Tracing is a perennial presence on end-user wishlists; it remains a handy tool for companies like Sun Microsystems, which wish to show that their offerings (Solaris, for example) are superior to Linux. It is not surprising that there is a lot of interest in tracing implementations for Linux; the main surprise is that, after all this time, Linux still does not have a top-quality answer to DTrace - though, arguably, Linux had a working tracing mechanism long before DTrace made its appearance.

At the Consumer Electronics Associations' Digital Downtown event in New York City a number of new products were on display. While this was no Las Vegas CES there were some cool gadgets out.

Meet this year's JavaOne spotlight technology, the same as last year's JavaOne spotlight technology.

MySpace has launched the MySpace Developer Platform site which will allow external software developers the chance to build applications for its users.

Drivers tend to be a world unto themselves, with bugs only affecting a subset-often a tiny subset-of kernel users. Until a driver gets merged into the kernel though, anyone wishing to test it, or help clean it up, has to jump through some hoops. To try and help reduce those barriers, Linus Torvalds and others have been advocating early merging of drivers; getting them into the kernel and incrementally improving them from there.