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Linux Kernel 2.5.8 Released

Posted by timothy on from the or-did-it-slip-out dept.

green pizza writes: "Linux Kernel 2.5.8 has been relased. Major improvements include readahead cache tweaks and support for hot-swap PCI on certain IBM machines." Here's the changelog; if you want to experiment with the bleeding edge, check out the list of mirrors provided by kernel.org.

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  1. Helloooooo? by repvik · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Major improvements include readahead cache tweaks and support for hot-swap PCI on certain IBM machines.
    Now *that* is important. When the biggest improvements are tweaks and support for hardware on 'certain' machines. Jeez...

    1. Re:Helloooooo? by NWT · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well where's the problem? They do their best to satisfy everyone's needs ... what if you had such a machine? were you still unhappy about this? Another point is that they try to improve linux support on bigger machines, which are often IBM servers ...

      If you're right, noone replies ...

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