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Linux 2.6.17 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the spit-shine dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "After almost three months, Linux 2.6.17 has been released. The changes include support for Sun Niagara CPUs, a new I/O mechanism called 'splice' which can improve the performance greatly for some applications, a scheduler domain optimized for multicore machines, driver for the widely used broadcom 43xx wifi chip (Apple's Airport Extreme and such), iptables support for the H.323 protocol, CCID2 support for DCCP, softmac layer for the wireless stack, block queue IO tracing, and many other changes listed at the changelog"

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  2. Re:module shotguns AKA the windows way.... by Nichole_knc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Windows kernel = about a gig these days loads... EVERYTHING you can imagine.... Why anyone with a modern machine with XP would want to run something from windows 95/98 era is beyond me.... Come to think of it anyone who would want a windows machine as a full time machine is too beyond me.... But give a hand to the noobs at least they are trying... Now get off the distro candy kernel and build your own....