Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 10, 2009 @12:45AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

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."

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Re:i'd just like to by Lord_Frederick · 2009-09-10 01:04 · Score: 4, Funny

Give it up already, Richard.
Yay! by British · 2009-09-10 01:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Improved acronym support!
Numbers higher than the last version!
greater infusion processor link array warp drive systems!
Re:Linux audio by Hatta · 2009-09-10 02:06 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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