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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. Re:Security fix backports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I still upgrade from time to time, but my attention is more focused on security than any supposed "improvements". I don't want to be the odd guy who is caught with some vulnerability that was fixed eight versions ago.

    Some Linux distributors, instead of providing a new kernel that may break old applications or devices, instead backport security fixes to an old kernel.

    The Ubuntu LTS+HWE model is interesting; you can basically install the kernel from Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04, or 13.10 on your 12.04 LTS system.

  2. Re:bcache is a HUGE improvement for some workloads by __1200333 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps someday dm-cache will make it into mainline.

    dm-cache is in mainline since 3.9. Now please test it and let me know if I should bother trying it!

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
    http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c6b4fcbad044e6fffcc75bba160e720eb8d67d17