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Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released
Xpilot writes "Linus Torvalds has just announced the availability of the newest Linux kernel release, 2.6.11. The newest addition to Linux that's stirring up some excitement is the inclusion of Infiniband support. You can get it from the usual mirrors at http://kernel.org/mirrors."
Nigel: "You're up to 11 on your server and up to 11 on your network and you need that extra little push to set it over the top and you got nowhere else to go. So this amp goes to infinity."
Interviewer: "I see. But why not just make 11 louder?"
Nigel: "But it goes to infinity."
Interviewer: "Yeah, but what if you just made 11 as loud as infinity?"
Nigel: "But...it goes to infinity."
>InfiniBand, which is derived from its underlying concept of "infinite bandwidth," is a switched fabric interconnect technology for high-performance network devices that is common in a number of supercomputer clusters.
So that works only for supercomputer clusters ?.Interestingly, the ChangeLog has some very small number of entries. The one I found most fun was:-
I mean, other wise they would end up as "-1" or "0" (when you assume in code that "0" or "1" for 1 -bit fields). How did a sign-extension in the IDE (must be heavily used) be missed till version 2.6 ??. Typically, this looks like the average release - some bug fixes and a couple of big features which nobody (well almost nobody) would use on their boxes.Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
Yeah, all those people waiting to boot their supercomputers using Knoppix to take advantage of Infiniband will just have to keep waiting.
It's a rift in the time-space continuum.
Linux 2.6.11 SCO 0 Better luck next time