Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released

An anonymous reader writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the 2.6.22 kernel: 'It's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out — if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time).' The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago. New features in the 2.6.22 kernel include a SLUB allocator which replaces the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new Firewire stack, and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source-level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree."

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Re:n00b

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't understand 70% of the changes listed and don't care about/don't use the rest of them. I know, I know... I must be new here. *sigh*

Not sure why that is modded Insightful and just above that is another user asking which usb device would be best to buy for a linux box, but that is modded "off-topic." I remember when slashdot was about news for geeks and sharing information about geeky things for linux/bsd/etc.. Now it seems like its just about modding up snarky comments and crap articles about george bush. Sad turn its taken over the last few years.

Headline does not match the story

[dbIII]

Follow the links above if you really want to see how the above poster is misrepresenting things to embrace a much larger picture - it's clear whoever modded them up did not.

Specific complaints should be stated as such instead of rubbish about it all being broken. The Gentoo thread quoted above is about people discovering that writing to optical drives is horribly slow and puts a lot of load on the CPU in comparison to dealing with hard disks - looking up ATAPI may have been a good move at that point instead of a lot of speculation.

Re:New wireless stack? Firewire stack? WTF?

[cerberusss]

I've seen some insightful posts from you so I'm not assuming you're trolling. But this has been discussed to death. There are perfect kernels in the 2.6 series and they're created by your vendor. That's what Linus wants and that's how it goes.