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Linux Kernel 2.6.21 Released

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. first pist, bitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first pist, bitches

  2. cluster by kevlarcoared · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Awesome, how does it run beowolf clusters?

    1. Re:cluster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      or , "Yeah, but does it run Linux?"

  3. John McCain: Minister of Propaganda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Anything you say Mr McCain.

    The North Vietnamese would have done the U.S.A. a great service by sending this sorry sack of babbling protoplasm to the Soviet Gulag for
    permanent residence.

    I hope this helps democracy in the United Gulags Of America.

    Sincerely,
    K. Trout

  4. Requiem for Macintosh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The artists moved to the Mac in 1984 for the user interface to make their art. They generated applications, hypercard stacks,applescripts, performance spaces like the apple store soho would eventually become, text and picture clippings, art galleries (tekserve).etc., due to their highly developed aesthetics.

    these artists-- these creative designers, musicians, scientists, and programmers-- stayed on the Mac during the interregnum when apple was a decaying mess and, respecting the Gestalt manager, built their applications out of dilapidated but beautiful Toolbox code.

    The pencil-pushers and accountning brats saw all of this and said, "Hey, that looks cool." "Daddy buy me some of that." But these switcheurs have nothing to contribute except a talent for demanding crap like glossy screens. just what the fuck are you spreadsheet fiddlers doing? nothing beyond fueling the demand for ugly, tragically misdesigned, cookie-cutter applications like Firefox and Azureus. That is why the Mac community has so rapidly gone into its Rococco stage.

    The Mac community continues to change and it is becoming very clear that we are loosing our edge-- the subcultures that once thrived on the Mac are all loosing steam to the mainstream. art, music, nightlife, web development. The Mac is so over. very sad indeed.

  5. Re:KVM management? by deezilmsu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

    Works great. Haven't been able to play with it in a while due to school policies on networking (give me my hub back, fackers), but there ya go.

    --
    It's not that I'm asking the big questions, it's that I'm asking lots of small ones.
  6. Re:You joke, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Read there and see this liar starluzr in action. He stated he was a woman as well, and when caught here on slashdot, he only then admitted to being male, rotflmao:

    "I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

    No one ever said you were a girl - YOU did, lol!

    Here is the posting where you did:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155

    "Hey, dipshit: how do you know I'm MALE? Maybe I SHOULD be acting like a woman because I AM one." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday March 26, @06:16PM (#18494155)

    And, when caught, he had to admit to his lies:

    "Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

    Later? Still more excuses:

    "YOU were the one who originally suggested I might be female, I just went along with it." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

    Yes, yet another lie!

  7. Re:Yep nothing could be further from the truth. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "nothing could be further from the truth." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday April 26, @06:41PM (#18892513)

    Except your own words, starluzr rotflmao. Starluzr's not big on telling the truth, see here where he/she stated he/she was a woman as well, and when caught here on slashdot, he/she only then admitted to being male, rotflmao:

    "I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

    No one ever said you were a girl - YOU did, lol, here:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227475&cid=184 94155 [slashdot.org]

    "I SHOULD be acting like a woman because I AM one." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday March 26, @06:16PM (#18494155)

    And, when caught, he had to admit to his lies:

    "Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)

    Later? Still more excuses and lies:

    "YOU were the one who originally suggested I might be female, I just went along with it." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 23, @07:43PM (#18847517)

    This fool starluzr is not one that should ever utilize the word truth. It just doesn't suit his style by any stretch of the imagination.

  8. NO, Alex. by StarKruzr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For the LAST TIME, I will NOT have sex with you.

    STOP.

    ASKING.

    --

    +++ATH0
    1. Re:NO, Alex. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Nobody asked you anything about sex. It appeared to me that you were the one saying you were a woman, with quotes of you saying it, and you're not, haha. What is up with that? That got me curious, so I did a bit of digging into your post history and found out you started up with a bunch of developers trolling them, and laughing about it. Now that you started it, it puts an entirely different light on things here to myself viewing . You're only getting the shoe put on the other foot now, yours, and being trolled in return albeit having your own words in lies used against you. Serves you right imo. Don't go trolling others next time and you won't have a problem.