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Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents

Posted by timothy on from the my-holiday-thanks-go-mostly-to-the-finnish-guy dept.

darthcamaro writes "Little penguins all around the world are waiting for Penguin-Master Linus Torvalds to deliver some Glogg inspired Xmas cheer in the form of the new 2.6.28 kernel. Among the innovations in 2.6.28 are ext4 as stable, wireless USB drivers, better KVM support and the GEM graphic memory management technology. 'We now have a proper memory manager for video memory, the GEM [Graphics Execution Manager] memory manager,' Greg Kroah-Hartman said. 'This gives Linux much better graphics performance than it previously had.'"

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  1. 2009 by dunezone · · Score: 0, Troll

    2009 will truly be the year of Linux!!!

  2. For me, it's something else by bogaboga · · Score: 1, Troll

    When it comes to Linux, for me it's the other stuff the Linux does not do very well right now.

    Let's agree: "Linux" as implemented by the many distros right now is ugly out of the box! Compare that with Apple's OSX or even Windows XP out of the box. With Linux, you first have to look for those Microsoft web fonts before you call a potential convert to have a look! Sad indeed.

    Multimedia handling is still wanting on Linux. To make matters worse, even Linux advocates will prefer to create video files on Adobe's [proprietary] flash instead of .ogg! This makes you wonder which master Linux fan-boys serve. Heck, we can't even eat our own food?

    One positive thing for now: KDE 4.2 is very very promising when to take a spin of it. Great work is being done as I write this. Gnome on the other hand will get there but the pain will be quite a lot before it does.

  3. Heh by markov_chain · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remember the howling that ensued during the Windows NT 3.51-4 switch, when 4 moved a bunch of graphics code into the kernel? :)

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  4. Re:The new graphics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Haven't read read the article yet but it does it require doing things differently in drivers or user-land software?

    This is what I hate most about Slashdot these days; let me translate for you: "Hi, I'm too lazy to be bothered to educate myself, even though it would take minimal effort to do so by simply reading the article, so I figure I'll post this and let others do the hard work of reading and learning about it, in the hope that someone will tell me what I want to know."

    Welcome to Slashdot in the 21st century, where being a nerd means posting one-liners and asking others to do your thinking for you.