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Linux 3.3 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

diegocg writes "Linux 3.3 has been released. The changes include the merge of kernel code from the Android project. There is also support for a new architecture (TI C6X), much improved balancing and the ability to restripe between different RAID profiles in Btrfs, and several network improvements: a virtual switch implementation (Open vSwitch) designed for virtualization scenarios, a faster and more scalable alternative to the 'bonding' driver, a configurable limit to the transmission queue of the network devices to fight bufferbloat, a network priority control group and per-cgroup TCP buffer limits. There are also many small features and new drivers and fixes. Here's the full changelog."

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  1. Way to go....... by WyzrdX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Finally 1 less reason to use anything windows based. I have been looking forward to the code getting out there. I just hope I can continue to learn without returning to basics.

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  2. *Btrfs* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, I farted.

    1. Re:*Btrfs* by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's what your mom said in the delivery room.

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  3. Re:Why Should I Care? by GmExtremacy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't think you know what you're referring to.

    If that's true, then why did you let trick you into so that you could use Gamemaker?

  4. Re:Keep it up. by mcrbids · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That may be technically true, but upgrading to Fedora 16 KDE brought a new KMail which pretty much borked EVERYTHING during the upgrade, effectively resulting in a complete loss of data.

    To be honest, I have a !@# lot of email, and it was pretty tragic. I had backups, of course, and the actual email was still safe on the IMAPS server, but years worth of carefully tuned filter settings, folders, and the like were trashed beyond recognition. Since there is no migration tool that actually works between the previous and new versions of KDE, my only choices were to retrograde, or re-set up the new KMail. Since I couldn't get it to save its settings, I switched to Thunderbird Mail, and I'm not at all a happy camper about it. It works, but lacks the elegance that KMail used to have.

    I loved KMail, and the new steaming pile of crap bearing its name doesn't even deserve the K.

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  5. flour milling by hateu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    flour milling