In a significant boost for smaller development companies, a start-up will provide the disk drive management software for the next Linux kernel - claiming a victory of sorts over industry heavyweight IBM.
I also don't necessarily like DRM myself," Torvalds wrote on the 'Linux-kernel' mailing list. For example, he decreed that it's permissible to let the kernel - the open source code at the heart of Linux - call upon proprietary modules of software.
Torvalds added in the message, which was sent to a general Linux discussion group: "People have been pretty good (understatement of the year) at debunking those claims, but the fact is that part of that debunking involved searching kernel mailing...
Torvalds, who initially created Linux for the Intel x86 platform, revealed to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in February during a discussion on kernel size reduction that his main desktop machine no longer featured an x86 processor.
For example, business users can conduct meetings on the road, complete with video, voice and "white board" illustrations, through IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) - a next-generation network architecture that sits on top of 3G networks.
The researcher, who goes by the initials 'LMH', wrote: "Mac OS X com.apple.AppleDiskImageController fails to properly handle corrupted DMG (disk image) image structures, leading to an exploitable memory corruption condition with potential kernel...