Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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"

4 of 43 comments (clear)

  1. MPPE, at last by abigor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, I thought some patent-encumbrance thing might have held it back, but apparently not. No more heinous mppe patches for me just so I can vpn into work. Excellent news!

  2. 8-| by vijaya_chandra · · Score: 1, Interesting

    From TF Changelog

    commit 88026842b0a760145aa71d69e74fbc9ec118ca44
    Author: Linus Torvalds
    Date: Mon Jan 2 19:21:10 2006 -0800
            Linux v2.6.15

            Hey, it's fifteen years today since I bought the machine that got Linux
            started. January 2nd is a good date.

    I guess(hope) this one's really not going to get into the kernel tree(into the Changelog included in the kernels src that is) or has it already?

  3. SATA SMART Finally! by LinuxDon · · Score: 4, Interesting
    SATA passthru support (neccesary for SMART)
    I've been missing smart support for SATA for as long as it exists.
    It's a shame that SATA support has been developing so slow..
    This seems like a usefull kernel release!
  4. Re:New Kernel, rebooting... by BillyBlaze · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the technology is kexec. But all it really does is prevent the BIOS from doing its thing for a warm reboot, by simply loading the new kernel instead of resetting the system. I think all the running process still die. I don't know what effect it has on uptime, but it's still a reboot for all intents and purposes.