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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"

3 of 444 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Really helped by Toveling · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let me guess.. Snappier?

  2. Re:Question for the masses. by reklusband · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's that way because Linus says so. No matter whether there are good or bad reasons behind that, Linus says so and because Linus says so, you're FREE (as in freedom)

  3. Re:You're such a square. by Pink+Tinkletini · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nothing personal, I mean, unless you share the sentiments expressed by the original poster. It sounded like he could use an ass-ramming more than anyone else I know.

    --
    And now, a PSA from David Lynch.