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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. fr0sty p1ss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!!

    1. Re:fr0sty p1ss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Damn... and I wanted to serve up a tall mug of the frosty piss to all, you bartard!

    2. Re:fr0sty p1ss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      who's stopping you? I, for one, welcome our new frosty piss serving overlords.

  2. question on the wireless by Adult+film+producer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just installed ubuntu on an old laptop (presario p3-600.) The installation was a breeze, answered about a dozen questions and everything installed.. automatically restarted and the gnome desktop loaded up and was working the first try. I figured linux would have a lot of issues with laptop hardware but it seems to be handling it very well, touchpad works, battery applet recognizes whether its plugged in or not.. etc etc. Anyways, I was thinking of adding one of these USB wireless accessories.. could anybody here recommend one that has a good track record of working in linux ?

  3. Re:What is this? by MadJo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How about an iPhone-like phone that runs Linux? :)

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  4. If there isn't going to be a 3.0 release... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is the point of retaining the 2.6?
    Why not just call the thing "22"? This has the advantage of putting the kernel in the same version neighborhood as GNU/Emacs.
    Oh, wait...being too close to GNU/Emacs's version number might bring development to a crawl.
    Never mind.

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