Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 25th Dec 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Heise Open Source provides an extensive breakdown of the innovations present in the latest release of the Linux kernel, announced by Linus Torvalds. This version adds the first version of Ext4 as a stable filesystem, the much-anticipated GPU memory manager which will be the foundation of a renewed graphic stack, support for Ultra Wide Band (Wireless USB, UWB-IP), memory management scalability and performance improvements, a boot tracer, disk shock protection, the phonet network protocol, support of SSD discard requests, transparent proxy support, high-resolution poll()/select()... full Changelog here
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2006-11-19
it's been a while since I last followed kernel developments, but these new features (especially the graphics stuff) looks very impressive, even more, considering this is an "incremental" update.
while windows is (due to software selection) my primary desktop, I wish Microsoft had learned from "release often, release early", "adding features to already released products" mentalities.