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:But is disk IO fixed on amd64?

[plague3106]

The problem is that upgrading an entire distro is a pretty challenging task. So now not only do you need to update the kernel, you need to update ALL the software that came with the disto? That's even worse. At least with the older model, you had the option of just doing the kernel (which I've done).

Kernel security / bug fixes should not require that you also update your applications.

Also, you now have to wait two to three YEARS before getting security fixes? That's simply unacceptable..