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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.
Linux: more bleeding edge than a pussy on the rag.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
We are already at ludicrous speed. Have you tried to launch or us any MS apps in Intel hardware that has less than dual core?
Ludicrously slow.
wake up and hold your nose
Oh, that just means she's a lesbian. Some strange stuff happens on the outer edges of the bell curve. Ever wonder why all of the smartest people have also been crazy, too?
What day is it? Could you please tell me?
Interesting.
Apparently the WoW forum losers are starting to show up on Slashdot. Calling something "full of fail," is a classic WoWism.
Please find somewhere else to interact with your fellow illiterate, pre-pubescent sociopaths. Slashdot has, despite certainly not being perfect, customarily been vastly more elevated and intelligent than the cesspool that is the WoW forums. I for one would like to keep it that way.
USB isn't really 'a serial interface.' It's an abomination. A big trap to block access to the PC, foisted on us all by Bill Gates and his cohorts.
Anybody with a reasonable understanding of port-based I/O can code a 16550 chip to talk to the world, and to a 'legacy' PC. And 'software UARTS' are a staple of embedded programming. The USB is a large overly-complex blot whose design is to make sure nobody connects anything to a PC anymore without paying a stiff entry fee. It poses neat PIC microcontroller based peripherals with the reality that a $30 USB dongle* (a USB to RS-232C adapter) will act as a barrier to adoption.
You don't even need any hardware to do a simple serial interface on an embedded controller. For USB you need to slap on a whole expensive dedicated chip.
(*the fucks who work at marketing jobs at the big box stores will SNEER at you if you ask after one. "Isn't that obsoolete?")