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Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Officially Released

Posted by timothy on from the happy-new-year! dept.

prisoninmate writes: January 10, 2016, will enter in the Linux history books as the day when the Linux kernel 4.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) has been officially released by Linus Torvalds and his team of hard working kernel developers. Prominent features of Linux kernel 4.4 LTS include 3D support in the virtual GPU driver, allowing for 3D hardware-accelerated graphics in virtualization guests, a leaner and faster loop device that supports Asynchronous I/O and Direct I/O, thus increasing the system's performance and saving memory, and support for Open-Channel Solid State Drives (SSDs) through LightNVM. Phoronix also took a look during the newest kernel's development cycle, and has an overview of 4.4's new features.

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  1. For a more complete changelog: by diegocg · · Score: 5, Informative

    For a more complete changelog:

    http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux...

  2. Re:Where do these impressive features matter? by godrik · · Score: 4, Informative

    They matter on my desktop.
    They matter on the desktops of all these administrations over the world that deploy linux operating system.
    They matter in all the cloud infrastructure that rely on virtualization for load balancing.
    They matter in the data center that are moving toward SSD for I/O.
    They matter in 80% of the cell phones in the world that deploy the linux kernel.

  3. Re: Is the systemd problem fixed yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Like doing the work of actually supporting the alternatives yourself. I have a regular day job. I spend nights and weekends packaging software for a popular GNU/Linux distribution. I'm not alone. I have better things to do than to make sure that everything works with every possible combination of systemd or non-systemd just because a few people have something against it. If you think it's so important to not use systemd then you better step up and do the work yourself.

  4. Re: So at the risk of being called a dumbass ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/

    Umm yes they do. Works fine on 14.04. YMMV.