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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

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  1. Re:Btrfs: kill off ext# please! by LOLLinux · · Score: 0, Troll

    But even assuming ms would use an open filesystem, they would want to alter it to make it incompatible with everyone else's implementation...

    So what? People take GPLed programs and make incompatible forks with it often. Why is it wrong if Microsoft wants to do the same with BSD code it would want to use?