Linux 3.4 Released

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 20, 2012 @02:24PM from the latest-in-a-long-long-run dept.

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."

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yes but... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-20 14:42 · Score: -1, Troll

When will the nightmare that is Linux audio be comprehensively solved?
1. Re:yes but... by maugle · 2012-05-20 16:27 · Score: 1, Troll
  
  You don't need it for music playback, but it can become noticeable when playing games.
  
  ...that is, it will become noticeable when playing games in the distant future, when Linux actually has games.
They fix the sound bullshit yet? by ArchieBunker · 2012-05-20 14:42 · Score: -1, Troll

Did anyone finally agree on a standard for sound cards or is someone else going to have a hissy fit and write yet another audio subsystem? Fucking agree on something already.

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