Android puts out call to mobile security gurus
Developers of Android, the Linux mobile platform spearheaded by Google, are asking security experts for input.
Kernel space: udev rules, but whose?
Once upon a time, a Linux distribution would be installed with a /dev directory fully populated with device files. Most of them represented hardware which would never be present on the installed system, but they needed to be there just in case. Toward the end of this era, it was not uncommon to find systems with around 20,000 special files in /dev, and the number continued to grow. This scheme was unwieldy at best, and the growing number of hotpluggable devices (and devices in general) threatened to make the whole structure collapse under its own weight. Something, clearly, needed to be done.
Two years on, Microsoft and Novell extend partnership
Microsoft said Wednesday it would purchase a further $100 million in coupons for Suse Linux support from Novell, furthering a controversial 2006 partnership aimed at customers who run both Windows and Linux in their server environments.
Google issues long-awaited Android SDK update
Following some developer complaints of slow progress, Google on Monday released an updated version of the Android software development kit as well as a timeline for future releases.
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