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Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released
diegocgteleline.es writes "After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, and variable process argument length. SLUB is now the default slab allocator, there's SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over L2TP support. Also the 'lumpy' reclaim algorithm, a userspace driver framework, the O_CLOEXEC file descriptor flag, splice improvements, a new fallocate() syscall, lock statistics, support for multiqueue network devices, various new drivers, and many other minor features and fixes. See the changelog for details."
Linux will never be GPL3. Got that? NEVER!
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...it IS missing quite a few things:
1. Games. Other than Urban Terror, pretty much any game I have tried in Linux is crap, or runs kind of crappily under wine. There are some emulators, so you can have decent games, but most of them don't work very well out of box, and are ludicrously difficult to set up. Plus: Until Nintendo figures out a smart/easy way for users to license content, emulation is inevitably going to be a piracy only option. Also, joystick support under wine is pretty awful (though getting better), and I have yet to figure out how to do
2. 3d audio. I'm assuming there's a way to do it. Good luck figuring it out, oh, and this isn't Linux's fault, but many Creative cards don't work at all because Creative are douches about making
3. drivers. There are plenty of missing drivers out there, and again this is not the fault of Linux, but it is an unfortunate part of the reality of where we are today. M$ has bullied many manufacturers into NOT supporting Linux, and the market has not brow beat them into sense about it (yet).
4. Ease of Use. I'm not saying Ubuntu hasn't made strides, it has, the new version even more so, but there are still plenty of common tasks that are very difficult and shouldn't be.
5. Videoconferencing. I've read that it's possible in ekiga, or by running VLC in some kind of special mode, but I have yet to be able to do it AT ALL, and I have thrown several hours away on it.
6. Recording Video. You know, like off of a TV card. Again, I've heard it was possible, and even read about MythTV and Mythbuntu, and others. If you can get it to work, kudos, you must be a fucking genius. I've tried like 8 approaches with zero success.
7. Microsoft Office. Linux does have the superior Open Office, but a LOT of students and professionals require M$ office, because they currently enjoy
8. a hegemony. Linux is going to have to be better, faster, easier, and backwards compatible before "The Year of Desktop Linux" happens. But this is a problem that feeds on itself since MS has a hegemony.
Linux is KICKING ASS right now, but it is still losing the war, and I'm nervous that it may not be ABLE to win, given some of the problems I've run into using Ubuntu in particular, and dealing with the Ubuntu community specifically. There is no bar for entry into the FOSS community, and it would not surprise me if M$ and the like were inserting enemy combatants left and right. I have to assume they are, given the ludicrously easy things that Linux as an OS (and yes I know the parent article is about the KERNEL, and this is all OT) fails to do.
I really hope the problems can be addressed, but I'm skeptical if Linux will ever break out of the server farms based on most of my recent experience, especially in the game department!
rhY
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