Star Higher and Further: The Innovations of Linux 2.6.28
Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 25th Dec 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Linux 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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RE[2]: the list is impressive
by jbauer on Thu 25th Dec 2008 11:08 UTC in reply to "RE: the list is impressive"
jbauer
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2005-07-06

To release often you actually need programmers, not lawyers. This is why Microsoft is still stuck with the same NT kernel which they got from a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation, led by Dave Cutler.


I guess you are right. Unlike Linux developers, of course, who are obviously not stuck with Linux.

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