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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RE[5]: the list is impressive
by sbergman27 on Thu 25th Dec 2008 22:24
in reply to "RE[4]: the list is impressive"
Member since:2005-07-24
Your second point doesn't actually make any sense at all, and it doesn't help you to bash NT or Windows, which is exactly what you did in your first message just for the sake of it. Sorry.
Well, I'm a Linux guy. But I don't really see where this particular type of Linux kernel vs NT kernel stuff gets us. So let me throw this into the ring to see if maybe something constructive comes of it: MinWin is/was/will be about emulating some strengths of the Linux kernel philosophy.
Edited 2008-12-25 22:25 UTC
Member since:
2005-07-06
No, it's because it's open source, cheap, and so can be customized by third parties.
Your second point doesn't actually make any sense at all, and it doesn't help you to bash NT or Windows, which is exactly what you did in your first message just for the sake of it. Sorry.
Edited 2008-12-25 21:58 UTC