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Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Neowin.net "Sarah Sharp, a self-styled 'geekess' and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. This makes Linux the first operating system to support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now." Here's Sharp's post.

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  1. Even better on my Linux box... by thomasdz · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Linux box goes to USB 11

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    1. Re:Even better on my Linux box... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You better go to the doctor. I think you may be pregnant.

      Think about it before you mod me off-topic.

  2. Re:Poor naming by WinterSolstice · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe that would make the USB5 logo Plaid?

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  3. Re:Another win for OSS community by Zencyde · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot + talking about menstruation = NO!

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  4. My God! by xSurioNx · · Score: 2, Funny

    They've Gone Plad!!

  5. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about geek with pendulous tits?
    That is still gender neutral.

  6. Re:Could someone post a link? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sarah Sharp, a self-styled 'geekess'

    I don't care what she looks like. If she refers to herself as a "geekess", she's off my list based on annoyability quotient.

    Anyway, you want fun, you gotta go for the Liberal Arts majors. They read "erotica" and learn all that kama sutra stuff.

    Or, do what I did and go for a mathematician. For some reason, female mathematicians are sex machines. The trick is to find one that doesn't look like Leonid Brezhnev with lipstick.

    Here's the secret: hang around the math department and look for the girls with names that sound like they're from the former Soviet Bloc. I don't know why, but over there they breed a certain type of hot chick with strong math aptitude. Probably a result of some sort of early genetic experiment before the fall of the USSR. Anyway, they get over here and go to our best math schools and since back home all the guys are brooding boors who drink too much and don't bathe, it can be as simple as being nice to them (and, of course, bathing regularly). Also, if they're from the former Yugoslavia, it's best not to mention that you thought Clinton was a great president. They still hold a grudge about all the bombing of Belgrade and stuff.

    If you play your cards right, you'll end up with a female that looks like Milla Jovovic and has a brain like Pierre de Fermat. They end up with a nice job in a math department somewhere (or even better, the financial sector) and BAM! you're home relaxed, playing Far Cry 2 and commenting on Slashdot, writing a novel the same way that Brian from Family Guy is "writing a novel" and in twenty minutes she comes home bringing bacon. Of course, be prepared to cook dinner occasionally and perform like a tantric guru. It can be a sweet, if tiring existence.

    Now excuse me, I have something on the stove.

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  7. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about geek with pendulous tits?
    That is still gender neutral.

    and on Slashdot it isn't even gender indicative

  8. Re:Could someone post a link? by Qubit · · Score: 1, Funny

    I could engage in some huge diatribe about how you're objectifying women and you shouldn't be a douche online 'cause that makes the geek girls uncomfortable.

    But I'm not even going to need that line. I'm just going to point out what she says on her blog:

    Vim automatic spell checking is my crutch

    Vim. Vim!. As in "Mmmmmmm, I love vi."

    Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!! So sad. Another soul lost...

    Okay, all together now: "I wish they all could be Emacs girls..."

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  9. Re:Could someone post a link? by abigor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, if they're from the former Yugoslavia, it's best not to mention that you thought Clinton was a great president. They still hold a grudge about all the bombing of Belgrade and stuff.

    That's only if she's a Serb. If she's Croatian, it could be a point in your favour.

    The takeaway here is that paying attention to geopolitics can pay great dividends.

  10. Re:You should be running Linux in 1990s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    bash.org

    Grover: On my linux box, I once swapped out the motherboard, put in a new video card, doubled the RAM, installed a CD burner, installed a RAID array of (6) 200GB SATA Drives, and overclocked the CPU without ever rebooting it

    Rusty: Didn't you reboot it a few weeks ago?

    Grover: Yeah, I had to reboot to install my Thumb Drive

  11. Re:Could someone post a link? by Sam36 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dude vim has spell checking!? That is awesome!

  12. Re:Another win for OSS community by PayPaI · · Score: 4, Funny

    decent driver

    You lost me.

  13. Re:Poor naming by fast+turtle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope. USB 4.0 will have "OMG Ponies" as it's moniker

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  14. Re:Could someone post a link? by narooze · · Score: 2, Funny

    Leonid Brezhnev with lipstick.

    Well, still no lipstick, but a start anyway... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SPpWp0E7Th8/SGJjHYjA_oI/AAAAAAAAAVI/e0wWURoKzHY/s400/brezhnev.jpg

  15. Re:Could someone post a link? by that+this+is+not+und · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could engage in some huge diatribe about how you're objectifying women

    Yes, but talk like that will just make you popular with the lesbians.

    Which is perfectly alright. But if you're straight it's a lonely existence.

  16. I wonder when... by atomic-penguin · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder when Microsoft will catch up, so that Windows will be, you know, "ready for the desktop"?

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  17. Re:Could someone post a link? by Perf · · Score: 2, Funny

    For some reason, female mathematicians are sex machines.

    They end up with a nice job in a math department somewhere (or even better, the financial sector) and BAM! you're home relaxed, playing Far Cry 2 and commenting on Slashdot, writing a novel the same way that Brian from Family Guy is "writing a novel" and in twenty minutes she comes home bringing bacon. Of course, be prepared to cook dinner occasionally and perform like a tantric guru. It can be a sweet, if tiring existence.

    Now excuse me, I have something on the stove.

    It's all fun and games until your math bunny starts multiplying. Then you're stuck at home with dirty diapers. ;-)

  18. Hey kiddies! by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you kids please get your wanking done before you start posting on Slashdot? Panting and drooling every time you see a female is pretty boring for others...

  19. Re:Could someone post a link? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must be new here.

  20. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral by jabithew · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congressionor is a pretty bad-ass-sounding title

    Maybe, but it's only one step away from Congressionator.

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  21. Re:Could someone post a link? by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 2, Funny

    You guys are fucking creepy.

    No, but they wish they were.

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  22. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2, Funny
    What a typo!

    Acknowledgement of gender is not sexist.

  23. Re:Could someone post a link? by theblondebrunette · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell that to Reiser :) He had a Russian chick and look what happened :)