Stories about: Netlink

Instrumenting a running kernel for debugging or profiling is on the wish list of many administrators and developers. Advocates of OpenSolaris like to point to DTrace as a feature that Linux lacks, though SystemTap has started to close that gap. The Linux Trace Toolkit next generation (LTTng) takes a different approach and was recently submitted for inclusion in the kernel (in two patches: architecture independent and architecture dependent).

The city of Munich got more media attention than respect after it decided on a migration to Linux and open source software on the desktop. After a careful and deliberately open movement towards deciding its IT future, Munich was slammed in the media, then became a target for Microsoft negotiators and a project at risk from a proposed European move to U.S.-style software patents.

Cisco Systems Inc. is offering a new mobile telephone for use with its IP Communications systems and Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) technology, the company said Monday.

Lawyers and Internet users are finding ever more problems with the proposed anti-hacking law. The planned statute, whose next step will be public submissions early next year, applies only to interception of private communications.