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Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the a-long-awaited-penguin dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.21 after months of development. This release improves the virtualization with VMI, a paravirtualization interface that will be used by Vmware. KVM does get initial paravirtualization support along with live migration and host suspend/resume support. 2.6.21 also gets a tickless idle loop mechanism called 'Dynticks', built in top of 'clockevents', another feature that unifies the timer handling and brings true high-resolution timers. Other features are: bigger kernel parameter-line, support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU and for the Cell-based 'celleb' Toshiba architecture, NFS IPv6 support, IPv4 IPv6 IPSEC tunneling, UFS2 write, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encryption for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, some new drivers and many other small improvements."

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  1. do I really care? by nanosquid · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I think since 2.6 has come out, I have lost complete track of kernel versions--it simply doesn't matter anymore to me. I think at this point, people could come in and replace the Linux kernel with BSD, Darwin, or Solaris and I probably wouldn't notice. Kernels have become a commodity.

  2. Hey, APK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Guess you're right after all! Someone DID read this!

    Oh, but they don't care. They don't care at all. No one seems to care at all about you, do they?

    Do you know why? Probably not. I'll tell you.

    It's because you're an insignificant, pathetic joke. A waste of a life. Hate to break it to you.