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Linux 3.5 Released

diegocg writes "Linux 3.5 has been released. New features include support for metadata checksums in Ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with systemtap/perf, a simple sandboxing mechanism that can filter syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Here's the full changelog."

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  1. Re:Ha ha he he by Anachragnome · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Android is the OS, not Linux. Linux is just the current kernel, and has absolutely no bearing on Android as a platform."

    Just testing this out... Test #2 (hiding in a negatively modded post/no title mod)
    http://cryptome.org/2012/07/censored-slashdot-post.htm [cryptome.org]