Linux 3.4 Released

jrepin writes with news of today's release (here's Linus's announcement) of Linux 3.4: "This release includes several Btrfs updates: metadata blocks bigger than 4KB, much better metadata performance, better error handling and better recovery tools. There are other features: a new X32 ABI which allows to run in 64 bit mode with 32 bit pointers; several updates to the GPU drivers: early modesetting of Nvidia Geforce 600 'Kepler', support of AMD RadeonHD 7xxx and AMD Trinity APU series, and support of Intel Medfield graphics; support of x86 cpu driver autoprobing, a device-mapper target that stores cryptographic hashes of blocks to check for intrusions, another target to use external read-only devices as origin source of a thin provisioned LVM volume, several perf improvements such as GTK2 report GUI and a new 'Yama' security module."

Comments

Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

I must be getting old.

priorities

[PopeRatzo]

How can you all calmly discuss a new version of Linux when one of the towering figures of modern music has just passed away?

Show a little respect, you pig-ignorant philistines.

Goodnight, sweet prince/and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest,

Now everyone, right now, go listen to "Holiday" or "Spicks and Specks" or "Massachusetts". Leave everything post-'74 alone. The album "Bee Gees First" is a classic of the drawing-room psychedelic era, and holds up very well to "Sgt Peppers" or any of the Nuggets. I love idiosyncratic voices and Robin Gibbs had one of the most.

Re:Portability

[tqk]

From what I understand, Microsoft did write portions of NT in x86 assembly in the old days to make it not crawl, and that was one of the things that caused less portability b/w the different NTs.

Who fsckin' cares? Zzzzzzz ... Boring.