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Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Officially Released
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.
My suspicion is that it's the Slashdot editors, or somebody else affiliated with Slashdot who is responsible. It's quite common to see early comments modded down to -1, without any reason (Flamebait, Troll, Offtopic, etc.) listed. The comments are downmodded almost immediately after they're posted in some cases, too.
This is just speculation, but maybe the Slashdot editors are trying to steer the conversation in certain ways, and they are attempting to do this by downmodding perfectly good comments right away, instead of letting community members judge the comments?
Comments pointing out problems with systemd often get this treatment, especially when they're perfectly relevant comments, like the GP's comment is.
I really hope that it isn't anyone affiliated with Slashdot who is responsible for the abusive and incorrect -1 moderations. If it is, that would be a really despicable thing for them to be doing. It would be far worse than the overt censorship at Hacker News, or the modding-to-make-up-for-having-a-micropenis that we see at Reddit, or the smartass holier-than-thou censorship at Stack Overflow.
What Slashdot should do is list who moderated each comment, and how they moderated it. I'd like to think they'd be honest, so that if it's somebody affiliated with Slashdot doing the downmodding that this is made clear. If somebody is deemed responsible enough to moderate comments, then they should be willing to have their username publicly associated with whatever moderation they give.