Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 18:20 UTC, submitted by diegocg
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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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.