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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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  1. In case of slashdot, break mirror by TrueKonrads · · Score: 4, Funny

    Changelog

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  2. Sounds good by goodenoughnickname · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds good -- how much does it cost?

    Sincerely,
    The New Guy

  3. Re:Nice by Frogbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    2.6.16! You're crazy. I'm still holding back on 2.4.10 until the dust settles.

  4. Re:Great, how about stable firewire support someda by Solra+Bizna · · Score: 5, Funny

    The above comment has been marked WORKSFORME, and is now closed.

    -:sigma.SB

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  5. Re:Go Linux! by jrockway · · Score: 4, Funny

    > A real macro system and overloading would probably be nice for kernel dev.s everywhere.

    Like LISP? That's what they used to use, but C was chosen for UNIX, and UNIX caught on big time, so C is the language now. I think it's about time to write an OS (kernel + tools) in LISP, so we can return to the good-old-days of Lisp machines.

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