Write a 1½-page report on a current operating systems topic. Your audience for this report is a busy academic administrator who knows a bit about operating systems but may not be an expert in this particular area, and who wants you to produce a short summary of what is important. Assume the administrator is directly or indirectly responsible for approximately 1,000 GNU/Linux servers, some operated directly by her staff, and some operated by other staff in various departments and research groups. For simplicity, assume these servers operate much like the servers run by SEASnet at UCLA.
For this quarter’s topic, you’ll be analyzing recent bugs in the Linux kernel, and condensing them down to an summary and action plan for your administrator’s staff.
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Your report should cover the following topics. Obviously with the short page limit you cannot cover everything in detail. Focus on the most important things the administrator should know.
Submit on Bruin Learn a 1½-page report in PDF form. Your report should be named lkbug-summary.pdf ahd should follow the guidelines in Resources for written reports and oral presentations, in particular its guidelines for citing others, for USENIX templates for papers, and for how to write good papers. It is OK to go over 1½ pages if the excess material consists merely of figures, citations, and appendices.
If you prepared your report using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, your report should cite the tools you used, and should contain an appendix containing all the prompts that you gave each tool and all the responses that you received.