Linux 2.6.27 Out · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 9, 2008 @03:58PM 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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Re:Linux 2.6.27 Out by CSMatt · 2008-10-09 16:14 · Score: 1, Offtopic

If only I still had my mod points.
Advisory by renegadesx · 2008-10-09 17:41 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Warning: Do not feed the Twitter!

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Make SELinux enforcing again!
flaimebait? by Macka · 2008-10-09 21:26 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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