Linux 2.6.31 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 18:20 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linux Linux 2.6.31 has finally been released. The list of new features includes USB 3.0 support, a equivalent of FUSE for character devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, memory management changes that improve interactivity in desktops, ATI Radeon KMS support, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, readahead improvements, a tool for using hardware performance counters, a memory checker and a memory leak detector, btrfs improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire and other improvements.
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Sweet, Sweet Candy!
by leech on Fri 11th Sep 2009 01:14 UTC
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2006-01-10

This should be a pretty sweet release. Multitouch capabilities should be in this kernel, which if you haven't used it before, try it. Touch screens are the wave of the future.

Congrats on yet another sweet release, kernel team.

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RE: Sweet, Sweet Candy!
by boulabiar on Fri 11th Sep 2009 02:47 UTC in reply to "Sweet, Sweet Candy!"
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2009-04-18

This kernel adds the N-TRIG driver for relative HP laptops.

Multitouch capabilities are in kernel since the 2.6.30.

it seems also that next kernels will get others multitouch device drivers.

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RE[2]: Sweet, Sweet Candy!
by leech on Sat 12th Sep 2009 04:04 UTC in reply to "RE: Sweet, Sweet Candy!"
leech Member since:
2006-01-10

Now I am just waiting for distributions to have the 2.6.31 kernel and wacom 0.8.4 drivers and it should work out of the box. Mandriva 2010 is close, but it doesn't setup the n-trig stylus.

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