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InternetNews January 11, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Linux Security a National Matter Stanford University, Symantec and source code analysis firm Coverity are the three recipients of a Department of Homeland Security grant called Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project.
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InternetNews September 12, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	New Linux Kernel Patched A pair of potential security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel has been patched with a new point release, 2.6.13.1.
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InternetNews January 13, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Torvalds Criticizes Security Approaches Linux creator weighs in on how potential security issues are disclosed.
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InternetNews August 31, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Tweaks, Regressions in Latest Linux Kernel The new 2.6.13 Linux kernel was released with improvements, and a few regressions too.
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InternetNews December 28, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	'Old' Linux Kernels Keep Coming Out with the old in with the new? Not for Linux, as new versions of the 2.4.x and 2.6.16.y kernel are released.
InternetNews March 28, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Linux Kernel Point Release Fixes Flaws A potential vulnerability is quickly plugged as kernel developers issue the first point release of the 2.6.16 kernel.
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InternetNews August 8, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Linux Kernel Maintainer: Get Involved! Linux kernel co-maintainer Andrew Morton takes aim at Sun and Microsoft while asking Linux aficionados to become more involved in the project.
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InternetNews June 13, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	From BitKeeper to Linux Kernel Update The upcoming 2.6.12 release of the Linux kernel is expected to sport native support for virtualization and SELinux among its enhancements.
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InternetNews February 24, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Supports InfiniBand Release candidate 5 with InfiniBand support also includes dozens of updates and patches.
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