Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Released

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @01:40AM from the stick-a-fork-in-it-wait-let-me-rephrase dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released. The list of new features includes NILFS2 (a new, log-structured filesystem), a filesystem for object-based storage devices called exofs, local caching for NFS, the RDS protocol (which delivers high-performance reliable connections between the servers of a cluster), a new distributed networking filesystem (POHMELFS), automatic flushing of files on renames/truncates in ext3, ext4 and btrfs, preliminary support for the 802.11w drafts, support for the Microblaze architecture, the Tomoyo security MAC, DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx graphic cards, asynchronous scanning of devices and partitions for faster bootup, the preadv/pwritev syscalls, several new drivers and many other small improvements."

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Re:LINUX IS SHIT by BrokenHalo · 2009-06-10 01:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

Fuck this shit. Going back to Windows.

No-one will miss you.
Re:2.8.x kernel soon? by Hatta · 2009-06-10 02:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

Of course I meant 2.6, duh

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Should Never Go Together by Nom+du+Keyboard · 2009-06-10 03:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx graphic cards
DRM and Linux -- two words that should never go together.

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