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Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU

Posted by Unknown on from the hardware-wants-to-be-free-too dept.

diegocg writes "Linux 3.1 has been released. The changes include support for the OpenRISC opensource CPU; performance improvements to the writeback throttling; some speedups in the slab allocator; a new iSCSI implementation; support for NFC chips; bad block management in the generic software RAID layer; a new 'cpupowerutils' utility for power management; filesystem barriers enabled by default in Ext3; Wii Controller support; and [the usual] new drivers and many small improvements."

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  1. Re:3.1! and I'm still stuck on 2.6... by surgen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can opensource projects stop with this utterly terrible use of the major.minor numbering...

    You're right. The sky is in fact falling.

  2. Re:3.1! and I'm still stuck on 2.6... by Beelzebud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If that's your criticism of open source, I'd say things are going fine.