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Linux 2.6.27 Out

Posted by timothy on from the not-all-fancy-like-gnu dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for 'pure' flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, improved webcam support, support for the Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, a new ath9k driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipsets, more new drivers, and many other improvements and fixes. Full list of changes can be found here."

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  1. Re:Linux 2.6.27 Out by CSMatt · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If only I still had my mod points.

  2. Ambiguous, and not that Interesting... by ToasterMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, before we can say "maintaining quality" we need to let the kernel live in the real world for a little bit. Let's make sure motherboards aren't catching fire and disks aren't walking before we get too carried away.

    Well, yes and no. The old LK dev model had unstable releases where bugs were expected. Now every release is stable, and bugs are truly anomalies.

    You ALMOST make sense if this were in an entirely different context. The parent suggested that this version is not real world tested, so it's too soon to speak of quality. You make it sound as if this new development model eliminates all bugs from stable releases. To the best of my knowledge, they've simply stopped releasing "unstable" versions.

    So...
    They didn't "have unstable releases", they released what was KNOWN to be unstable, development snapshots - IN BETWEEN what were considered to be stable releases. They don't therefore release more stable "stable" code simply because they stopped releasing unstable "unstable" code. Nothing you said supports that concept. The parent incredibly obviously suggested that there may be UNKNOWN stability issues. Why wouldn't this be true?

    WTF were these five people smoking, and why did you write this so retardedly ambiguous in the first place?

  3. Advisory by renegadesx · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Warning: Do not feed the Twitter!

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    Make SELinux enforcing again!
  4. flaimebait? by Macka · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why has this been moderated flamebait? What he's saying is true!