Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released

diegocgteleline.es writes "The Linux kernel v2.6.31 has been released. Besides the desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support mentioned some days ago, there is an equivalent of FUSE for character devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, new tools for using hardware performance counters, readahead improvements, ATI Radeon KMS, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, gcov support, a memory checker and a memory leak detector, a reimplementation of inotify and dnotify on top of a new filesystem notification infrastructure, btrfs improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire, new drivers and small improvements. The full list of changes can be found here."

Comments

Re:i'd just like to

[Lord_Frederick]

Give it up already, Richard.

Yo dawg

[Lemming Mark]

We heard you like your audio to work, so we put a sound API in your sound API, so you can have silence whilst you listen!

Yay!

[British]

Improved acronym support!
Numbers higher than the last version!
greater infusion processor link array warp drive systems!

Re:Linux audio

[Hatta]

it is a good API and it IS the future of Linux desktop audio,

It may be a good API, but it's not a good implementation. But yeah, I can agree that glitchy, high latency audio is the future of Linux desktop audio.