Linux 2.6.16 released

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.16 has been released after two months and two weeks of development. You can check the comprehensible changelog (text mirror of the site). The new features include OCFS2, a clustering filesystem contributed by Oracle, new unshare(), pselect()/ppoll() and *at() system calls, support the moving of the physical location of pages between nodes in NUMA systems, support for the Cell processor, cpufreq support for G5s plus thermal control for dualcore G5s, improved power management support for many devices and subsystems (libata, alsa...), a new mutex locking primitive, high-resolution timers, per-mountpoint noatime/nodiratime, 64-to-32-bit ioctl compatibility for the v4l2 subsystem, IPv6 support for DCCP, the TIPC protocol (Transparent Inter Process Communication, ACL support for CIFS filesystem, HFSX filesystem support, new configfs filesystem (which complements sysfs, not replaces it), support for running executables from v9fs (plan9 9P distributed filesystem), support for many new devices, improved support for others and lots of other changes. Check it out from kernel.org"

Comments

Re:cdrecord

[Mr. Underbridge]

I love a good pissing contest...

Re:Why do you bother?

[rehabdoll]

wow, what a troll.

Re:Why do you bother?

[amightywind]

Don't mean to dis slackware. Gentoo allows you to keep your machine updated daily, quarterly, or never if you prefer. You will have very fine control over what you install. You can use spacific compiler options that apply to your flavor of CPU. The Gentoo forums are a great source of help. They are very active. A lot of people have suffered over the years to make things nice (if not easy). You should not have to suffer. Start here: http://www.gentoo.org/ Good luck!

Trolling, no, proselytizing, yes

[amightywind]

Trolling? No, at least the original poster didn't think so. Proselytizing? Certainly. I am a Gentoo GNU/Linux fanboy and zealot. I am always trying to help new users to use their computers more wisely.