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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."

2 of 296 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bloat? by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Troll

    I run Windows XP on my desktop, and I shut it down whenever I am done using it for a spell. However, I don't reboot it; I use hibernate. You really should step into the current century. Windows has had hibernate support since Windows 2000.

  2. Re:You joke, by slickwillie · · Score: 0, Troll

    Rumor has it that 3.0 will have time-independent teleportation, so you can virtualize any kernel ever in the history or future of Linux. It's actually in the unreleased beta, they are waiting for better hardware. Unfortunately is only works on software.

    N.B. Beware, in lab tests it only reaches out to the year 2012.