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Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Linux 4.1 kernel has been announced and its release brings expanded features for the Linux kernel including EXT4 file-system encryption, open-source GeForce GTX 750 support, performance improvements for Intel Atom / Bay Trail hardware, RAID 5/6 improvements, and other additions.

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  1. Please fix slashdot by buck-yar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Read More button gone. Stupid share button in its place.

    1. Re:Please fix slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No, they are re-implementing beta one step at a time. It's a new strategy.

    2. Re:Please fix slashdot by caseih · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes it still works, but it's not obvious or discoverable. And it's jarring. I typically read the blurb to decide if it's interesting, then click the read more at the bottom of the blurb to read the whole thing and the comments. Also the number of comments was right there at the bottom too, which made it nice and fast to see what were the interesting stories. Now that information is in the upper right-hand corner, so I just don't notice it straight away. I guess Dice once again has forgotten the value of slashdot and the interesting aspect of slashdot is the user-generated comments. Dice seems to be rolling out the beta site with all its crap and and its de-emphasis on user-provided content, but under the guise of the classic site. Not working guys!

      If someone can post some greasemonkey scripts to fix the site, that'd be wonderful. Also if we could just turn off the video bytes stuff that would be good also. And put the polls back where they belong!

      In the meantime, there is soylent. It's not been very good lately but if enough people go there and comment, and submit stories, maybe it will get better and be a proper replacement.

  2. Re:Lots of great features and no kdbus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure what encryption is useful for.

    Think about extremely common and relatively benign cases, before you even bother getting to the topic of thieves.

    You buy a hard drive with a warranty. Before the warranty expires, the drive fails. It doesn't work (or not reliably) so you can't confidently wipe it. But you can't physically destroy it either, if you want it replaced through the warranty instead of at your own expense.

    So you send the drive (which contains your data) to total strangers where they will have physical access and be completely unaccountable. Even if the first group of strangers is friendly, if they have their act together, they might recycle any viable platters. Now your platter is on the market, possibly with your data on it. Or it's in a trash bin.

    That data needs to be cyphertext.