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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. amazing this is quite good improvement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Wow this is quite amazing - first post on slashdot.org. I can't wait to try this kernel on my box

  2. Re:First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    First.
    Fourth, actually.

  3. Welcome to Slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    First post on /. and get it marked as flamebait... I hope you learn fast. Anyway... Welcome aboard! :)

  4. Nice by agentdunken · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Nice new update but i'm going to stay with 2.6.16.. Working great for me so really no need to upgrade.. I'll wait till 2.6.20 comes out then I will update.

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    Linux, because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.
  5. Re:Question for the masses. by DemonThing · · Score: 0, Redundant

    FreeBSD is not Linux.

  6. get with the program by r00t · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dude, Linux makes everything better!

  7. Cluster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!