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Linux 3.9 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

hypnosec writes "After a week's delay Linux 3.9 has finally been made available by Linus Torvalds. Last week Torvalds released the rc8 stating that he wasn't 'comfy' releasing the final version yet and that 'another week won't hurt.' Torvalds noted in this week's announcement that last week had been very quiet as there were not many commits and the ones which were there were 'really tiny' so he went ahead with the release of Linux 3.9."

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  1. Re:Interesting but... by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the almighty google (but yeah a link in theTFS would be the least you'd expect)
     
      What's new in Linux 3.9

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  2. 3.9 includes by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Informative

    Among other things 3.9 includes experimental kernel-level Raid 5 and 6, caching slow of storage devices by fast ones, support for more graphics cards and audio devices, as well as improved power management.

    1. Re:3.9 includes by danbob999 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Linux already had kernel-level Raid 5 and 6. It is usable with mdadm. The new feature is that BTRFS, a filesystem, now supports Raid 5 and 6 without using the software-raid layer in the kernel.

  3. Re:You're kidding me, right?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What's wrong with that? That's how release candidates are supposed to work. You already do all your testing before the first rc. After releasing an rc you wait for anyone downstream to report problems. If there are no reports then that your final stage of QA is done and you accept the candidate.

  4. So what's new? by complete+loony · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-9-1845705.html

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  5. Re:Interesting but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What's new in Linux 3.9

  6. Re:SSD caching - awesome by Gaygirlie · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's been around in the form of bcache for ages now and bcache is considered stable -- it is already in production-use. It's a pretty nifty thing, can be configured to your needs to quite a large degree and it's smart enough not to cache large, sequential reads/writes. If you're interested check out http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ and http://atlas.evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/tree/Documentation/bcache.txt?h=bcache-dev