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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Another win for OSS community

[adosch]

Chalk one up for Intel and Linux kernel OSS support! IMHO, a big milestone in the fact that Linux kernel development is always teetering on the bleeding edge. This isn't going to change much for the novice user unless distro's do their part and package in the kernel support for it, but for the more savvy users and testers, it's going to help USB 3.0 mature very quickly and get the bugs worked out faster. I dig it.

Re:Another win for OSS community

[Rakshasa Taisab]

I thought the Slashdot community was open for all kinds of fetishes... ;(

The word 'Geek' is gender neutral

[geekoid]

like Doctor or Actor.

Geekess would mean you are just a sub geek. Please, clearly you are all geek.

Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral

[sexconker]

Nope.
The correct word is actor.
Same for waiter, steward etc.

If you're talking about titles, such as Count, or Duke, or Prince, you can go to Countess, or Duchess, or Princess if the position itself gives powers/responsibilities specifically to the wife of the holder (and thus there is actually a separate title to take on).

A (male) Steward of an estate or position being married would not (usually) confer any responsibilities or powers upon his wife, and thus, a Steward's wife was NOT a Stewardess.
A (female) Steward's husband would not have a separate title either.

Today (in the US) the only one I can think of is First Lady. Were we to have a female President, I expect a full month of Wolf Blitzer and crew debating what to call her husband. Hollywood already nailed down "Madame President" (analogous to "Mr. President") through various TV shows and movies.

Congressman and Congresswoman are incorrect.
Senator and Representative are correct. The two are designed to be separate, dammit. Having two Houses of Congress means literally having two damned buildings and bodies (houses) of meeting (congress) that are separate.
If you really need a term for a member of either one, Congressionor is a pretty bad-ass-sounding title.

Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral

[smoker2]

That says more about you than anyone else. Do you believe women are inferior ? If not, why can't they have their own titles ? What about hero and heroine ? It's simply a way of making each word more than the sum of its letters, but of course, especially in US english, you can't do that because it confuses the proles. So you end up with 2 words in the same sentence that mean the same thing. "And I also installed a new video card as well". Seriously, watching the discovery channel makes me mad. They pretend they are being serious and scientific and speak like uneducated street kids, reading it from a card. Quite often making huge logical blunders as a result. And as for things like CSI etc, don't get me started. One memorable one was Grissom saying, "terminal velocity is 9.8m/s" NO IT ISN'T ! Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s/s and terminal velocity is the speed reached DUE to that acceleration. Or on Numbers where gimboid explains how a rainbow works - "the water droplets split each colour up into its component parts" NO THEY DON'T ! the water droplets split white light into its component colours. I don't care if it matters to the story, stupid errors like that are indicative of how dumb the writers are.
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You should be running Linux in 1990s

[Ilgaz]

To figure how huge thing this is, you should be running Linux in 1990s and tried to use USB early, practical devices such as mouse.

Windows 95 with "hacked in" USB support was working better with USB devices. We ended up struggling for hours and ending up with PS/2 adapter coming with USB mouse under Linux. Need to say more?

Re:Even worse than you can imagine

[tyrione]

Seriously? I was thinking of Super Sport. Should all those classic car collectors crap themselves a pile of guilt because you go straight to Weisswurst or Die every time SS follow one another?

Only a mental moron thinks 666 means Satan. Even a Rabbi will laugh their ass off on that butchered Qabalistic interpretation.

Hell they might even mock you and say, ``Stay back you devil's advocate!''

Grow up. This Satan fallacy for the past 2,000 plus years has got to be the greatest one-trick lie ever spread.

Re:Poor naming

[Anonymous Coward]

That SS really confused me.. In Holland we have a not so positive meaning associated with those two letters (same for SA) they are the only two letter combination that is not allowed in license plates for example.

Re:Wasn't it also the first for USB too?

[X0563511]

Or maybe you should put the troll-smacking stick down and realize that Apple did indeed have USB in their home computers before anyone else did.

At least they got that right... USB is an extremely useful thing to have around.