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Linux 2.6.15 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the another-go-at-the-perfect-penguin dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.15 has been released after two months and a week of development. You can check the comprehensible changelog (google cache) or grep the full changelog. There are some new features like shared subtrees, UDP fragmentation offload, PPP MPPE encryption (VPN), NTFS write support (except for creating files), PPC64 thermal improvements, support for the late-2005 powerbook series, SATA passthru support (neccesary for SMART), console rotation for fbcon, nf_conntrack subsystem, some scalability and performance improvements, and lots of other changes. As always, download it from www.kernel.org"

6 of 43 comments (clear)

  1. WMF Support ? by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Still no .wmf support ? When is Linux going to be ready for the desktop ?

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  2. No, it's the solution. by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What do you get when you multiply nine by six?" is the problem.

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  3. In next Haloween document... by DrYak · · Score: 2, Funny

    From: Billga~1@ms.com
    To: steveb~1@ms.com
    Subject: This linux stuff people are talking about.

    Please see if you can reassign one of the 1,354 engineers from the Mac OS X virus development project to do a feasibility study on this other OS port of our 'WMF backdoor' feature for which our customer service has recieved requests from slashdot. Not sure what it would do, maybe a new market. Low priority.

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  4. Re:Reiser4? by bersl2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know, why don't you ask this on LKML, right now?

    [runs for underground bunker]
    [turns on air raid siren]

  5. Loads of improvements... by dow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft will now delay Vista even longer while they incorporate many of these new ideas...

    Joking of course, they've already got most of this no doubt, as I'm sure they've been thrororghly testing the new Windows on 512 cpu SGI Altix systems, they must have thousands of developers working on it.

    Oh, I seen the fbcon rotate too. Now This may have practical uses, but would also be a fantastic one to execute on your friends system when he aint looking. Imagine coming back and your screens upside down... muhahaha

  6. Re:Reiser4? by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's scheduled to be included at the same time as Duke Nukem Forever is released..