LTSI Linux Kernel 3.4 Released

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @06:08PM from the penguins-with-boosterspice dept.

hypnosec writes "The Linux Foundation has announced the release of Linux 3.4 under its Long Term Support Initiative (LTSI), which will be maintained for the next two years with back-ported features from newer Linux kernels. Based on Linux 3.4.25, the LTSI 3.4 is equipped with features such as Contiguous Memory Allocator – which is helpful for embedded devices with limited hardware resource availability; AF_BUS – a kernel-based implementation of the D-Bus protocol; and CoDel (controlled delay) – a transmission algorithm meant for optimization of TCP/IP network buffer control."

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AF_BUS -- a[n] implementation of the D-BUS" by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-22 22:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

which may or may not materialize in the mainline.
Backporting uncontested features, those which will go into mainline is fine, but I don't get this.
Caveat emptor.
Re:Good, I suppose by jones_supa · 2013-01-23 01:21 · Score: 3, Insightful

There can be many distributions, but there could be one reference distribution, which the likes of Steam, Quartus and MATLAB could target and have a sanely supportable platform.