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Submission + - Think Secret to Shut Down (thinksecret.com)

Submitted by gfoyle on Thursday December 20, 2007 @02:25AM

gfoyle writes: Think Secret, published by college student Nick Ciarelli since 1998, is shutting down as part of a confidential settlement of Apple's 2005 lawsuit concerning the publishing of 'trade secrets' belonging to the Cupertino company.

Submission + - Linux kernel 2.6.23 to have stable userspace drive

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liquidat

on Saturday July 21, 2007 @06:49PM

liquidat writes: "Linus Torvalds included patches into the mainline tree which implement a stable userspace driver API into the Linux kernel. The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Now the last patches where uploaded and the API was included in Linus tree. The idea of the API is to make life easier for driver developers:

This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself. It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to process interrupts and control memory accesses.
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