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Linux 2.6.17 Released
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"
Let me guess.. Snappier?
if it were not for the guys that continuously hack the code for this OS then we wouldn't continue to have this excellent OS, we'd all be M$ pawns.
Oh, yes, if we didn't have another Unix ripoff we'd all have to run windows... go blow it out your ass. there are more than 2 choices in x86, beyotch.
BTW, Mac OS X is a Unix-based OS so it really shows how well you know what you're doing.
Fag, don't think for a second that I didn't know that. What does that have to do with Linux anyway? Frankly you're one of those Linux fags who takes themselves WAY too seriously, Look at the number of "off topic" modded posts... if you can't sit there and say (honestly) to yourself "damn, these people have no sense of humor" than it just goes to show you really need to get that bug out of your ass.
Get a fucking life you fucking bitch loser.
BTW: We're all laughing at you.
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)
My guess is that the application was editing a video of him and his buddies fucking each other up the ass and other assorted fag happenings while talking up the praises for Linux Cornhole. At least that's my guess.
BTW: Linux is STILL for fags.
After only 3 months how can so much software be reliably tested? Is it really released or is it still beta? I thought there was a bunch of static flying around about version 2.5 of the kernel. If you build software on a broken foundation you will only get broken software. What if this software only works becuase earlier software is failing? That is a completely possible situation.
Where's the 0xBEEF
Wow, that's really insightful.
So you got any other things to bitch about you little whining fag?
Just go back to smoking dicks. We don't need your input here.
Nice to see that fanboyism is still alive and well with Linux fanatics.
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.
Things like that are what I consider one of the more embarrassing things about the design of Linux. In fact, it really surprises me that in 2006, there is still not a true, separate driver interface API. It's pretty backwards that device drivers are a part of the kernel source tree, to be frank. However, it's pretty clear now that Linux's niche is, and perhaps always will be, the server market, where that's not as much of a concern (since hardware doesn't change a lot anyway).
"Sufferin' succotash."
If only there was a stable driver ABI, you could just use the same driver as last time...
"Sufferin' succotash."