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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. Damnit! by FunWithKnives · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I just upgraded to 2.6.20-15! (Kubuntu Feisty Fawn)

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  2. That's nice and all... by rob1980 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... but does it run Linux?

    1. Re:That's nice and all... by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 4, Funny

      Since it supports para/virtualization yes, of course, it runs linux!

      (Damn, finally there's an answer for this!)

  3. Another solution to a timeless problem! by iamacat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once again, it took many months of work to optimize an idle loop.

  4. Re:You joke, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if we're ever going to see 2.8 at this rate

    Linux 2.8 will compete with SunOS 6.0 as the best platform for running Duke Nukem Forever.
  5. Re:Hotplug CPU support! by harrkev · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hotplug CPU support? That must burn
    Nope. Works great. Let me demonstrate...fsdjlksd+++
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  6. Re:Does it still crash after 49.7 days?? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 5, Funny

    497 day wrap around? You should switch to Windows. I'm sure no such problem has ever been reported on that OS.

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  7. Re:EXTRA EXTRA! by number1scatterbrain · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know that's you, Ballmer. Anonymous, my ass!

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