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Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-only-the-free-version dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's many improvements due in the Linux 3.13 kernel that just entered development. On the matter of new hardware support, there's open-source driver support for Intel Broadwell and AMD Radeon R9 290 'Hawaii' graphics. NFTables will eventually replace IPTables; the multi-queue block layer is supposed to make disk access much faster on Linux; HDMI audio has improved; Stereo/3D HDMI support is found for Intel hardware; file-system improvements are on the way, along with support for limiting the power consumption of individual PC components."

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  1. So many improvements by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Funny

    So many improvements! Which proves that right now Linux must really suck. It's a good thing then, that Windows, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris, etc etc can be counted on to suck far worse.

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    1. Re:So many improvements by swillden · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot may, at first glance, appear to be the intelligent and knowledgeable 0.01%, but it is really the idiotic 99.999999999999%

      So, you're saying slashdot is everyone?

      (You'd need 10^14 people -- more than 100,000 times the population of the planet -- in order for the 0.000000000001% to equal one person.)

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  2. Right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is just a cash grab by the Linux developers.