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Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released

Posted by kdawson on from the when-you-must-have-the-latest dept.

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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  1. Anybody by Jaaay · · Score: 3, Interesting

    have any information on how good the new wireless stack is? That's what I'm most interested in.

  2. Linux 3.0.0 by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok. You have a major release, it's permission to break all backwards compatibility, to completely change the face of computing.

    Given the hardware around. What features should Linux 3.0.0 have?

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