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Linux 3.5 Released

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-linus dept.

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. Linux-libre is the real deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Linux, the kernel developed and distributed by Linus Torvalds et al, contains software that is included without source code, with obfuscated or obscured source code and code under non-Free Software licenses. Linux-libre removes these parts.

    http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/