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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."
can you say, 'yo dick in mah mouth'?
About time they fix that issues... it's been around since at least 1995.
Sounds awesome... too bad everything outside the kernel sucks.
Shut the fuck up you 7 digit n00b luser or I'll like, kick your ass and stuff.
I'm only slashdot's second biggest Monkey spanker
Linux is for dorks.
Ah yes, a real life specimen gentoo "my USE flags are bigger than yours" user. The reference to bzip2 is especially funny, as even the bzImage files are in fact compressed by gzip (it stands for "big zImage"). Here's a nickel kid, go buy yourself a bigger RAM.
And what do we have here? A ex-gentooist, now a lazy Ubuntu clown whose system takes at least 3 minutes to boot. Seriously, this is not about distros. The kernel used to fit in one 1,44M floppy just fine along with many useful tools. The newest kernel in Ubuntu is already 8,76 MB in size. Of course 7,05 MB of that is modules and the floppy version didn't have everything included, but it's still quite huge now. I'm getting worried about the code quality and security. Microkernels, anyone?
You're not an exception - you're the norm. It's the fan boys and girls who like to waste energy and flood forums with their little factory idiot tags that spout system stats that nobody else on the planet cares about.
I showed your post to my girlfriend, and she spit out my cock and exclaimed in exasperation, "No wonder nobody uses Linux!"
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.
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.
Sick of Lin-sux? Its' time to switch.